Thursday, May 3, 2012

1111.7282 (Gareth P. Alexander et al.)

Conformal Smectics and their Many Metrics    [PDF]

Gareth P. Alexander, Randall D. Kamien, Ricardo A. Mosna
We establish that equally-spaced smectic configurations enjoy an infinite-dimensional conformal symmetry and show that there is a natural map between them and null hypersurfaces in maximally-symmetric spacetimes. By choosing the appropriate conformal factor it is possible to restore additional symmetries of focal structures only found before for smectics on flat substrates.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7282

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