Timeline for Why does the Weyl transformation preserve angles in string theory?
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| Sep 10, 2015 at 14:45 | comment | added | Simon | @Danu In fact, I want an answer more explicit in mathematics, and it is below. Thanks for your advice! | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 14:43 | comment | added | Robin Ekman | Locally, the conformal transformation is isotropic in the sense that the change to a vector's length is independent of the vector's direction. This must mean that all angles are preserved. | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 14:42 | vote | accept | Simon | ||
| Sep 10, 2015 at 14:34 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 10, 2015 at 14:30 | answer | added | Prahar | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Sep 10, 2015 at 8:36 | comment | added | Danu | See e.g. here (conformal transformations are closely related to Weyl symmetry). Also take a look at this related question. | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 8:03 | history | asked | Simon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |