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How to express energy-momentum tensor of conformal fluid in terms of temperature?
I heard that conformal fluid has only one scaling governed by temperature, by how exactly the relation is derived between energy-momentum tensor and temperature? I will really appreciate if some ...
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Why are conformal transformations so prevalent in physics?
What is it about conformal transformations that make them so widely applicable in physics?
These preserve angles, in other words directions (locally), and I can understand that might be useful. Also, ...
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Why does dilation invariance often imply proper conformal invariance?
Why does a quantum field theory invariant under dilations almost always also have to be invariant under proper conformal transformations? To show your favorite dilatation invariant theory is also ...
