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Conformal Smectics and their Many Metrics
Published 30 Nov 2011 in cond-mat.soft, cond-mat.stat-mech, gr-qc, hep-th, math-ph, math.DG, and math.MP | (1111.7282v2)
Abstract: 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.
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