Doubled conformal compactification

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作者
Sun ZhaoYong [1 ,2 ]
Tian Yu [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Theoret Phys, State Key Lab Theoret Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
conformal transformations; electrodynamics; doubled Penrose diagrams; conformal compactification; WAVE-EQUATIONS; INVARIANCE; FIELD; ELECTRODYNAMICS; SYMMETRY;
D O I
10.1007/s11433-014-5487-0
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We use Weyl transformations between the Minkowski spacetime and dS/AdS spacetime to show that one cannot well define the electrodynamics globally on the ordinary conformal compactification of the Minkowski spacetime (or dS/AdS spacetime), where the electromagnetic field has a sign factor (and thus is discountinuous) at the light cone. This problem is intuitively and clearly shown by the Penrose diagrams, from which one may find the remedy without too much difficulty. We use the Minkowski and dS spacetimes together to cover the compactified space, which in fact leads to the doubled conformal compactification. On this doubled conformal compactification, we obtain the globally well-defined electrodynamics.
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页码:1630 / 1636
页数:7
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