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Pramana – Journal of Physics
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E A Lord
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Volume 3 Issue 5 November 1974 pp 354-354 Erratum
Volume 25 Issue 6 December 1985 pp 635-640 Mathematical Physics
It is demonstrated that Kibble’s method of gauging the Poincaré group can be applied to the gauging of the conformal group. The action of the gauge transformations is the action of general spacetime diffeomorphisms (or coordinate transformations) combined with a local action of an 11-parameter subgroup of SO(4,2). Because the translational subgroup is not an invariant subgroup of the conformal group the appropriate generalisation of the derivative of a physical field is not a covariant derivative in the usual sense, but this does not lead to any inconsistencies.
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