In a short review of recent work, we discuss the general problem of constructing the actions of new conformal field theories from old conformal field theories. Such a construction follows when the old conformal field theory admits new conformal stress tensors in its chiral algebra, and it turns out that the new conformal field theory is generically a new spin-two gauge theory. As an example we ...

A bstract We investigate perturbatively tractable deformations of topological defects in two-dimensional conformal field theories. compute the change g -factor, reflectivity, and entanglement entropy defect at end these short RG flows. also give instances such flows diagonal Virasoro Super-Virasoro Minimal Models.

In the present paper, we consider $\lambda $-biminimal conformal immersions. We find Euler-Lagrange equation of immersions under change metrics. also from a surface $\left( M^{2},g\right) $ to Riemannian manifold N^{3},h\right) homothetic metric and give an example.

Vector fields whose flow preserves a symplectic form up to a constant, such as simple mechanical systems with friction, are called “conformal”. We develop a reduction theory for symmetric conformal Hamiltonian systems, analogous to symplectic reduction theory. This entire theory extends naturally to Poisson systems: given a symmetric conformal Poisson vector field, we show that it induces two r...

This work concerns in part the construction of conformal Jordan cells of infinite rank and their reductions to conformal Jordan cells of finite rank. It is also discussed how a procedure similar to Lie algebra contractions may reduce a conformal Jordan cell of finite rank to one of lower rank. A conformal Jordan cell of rank one corresponds to a primary field. This offers a picture in which any...

In this note we take some initial steps in the investigation of a fourth order analogue of the Yamabe problem in conformal geometry. The Paneitz constants and the Paneitz invariants considered are believed to be very helpful to understand the topology of the underlined manifolds. We calculate how those quantities change, analogous to how the Yamabe constants and the Yamabe invariants do, under ...

In this paper we investigate the problem what kind of (two-dimensional) Finsler manifolds have a conformal change leaving the mixed curvature of the Berwald connection invariant? We establish a differential equation for such Finslerian energy functions and present the solutions under some simplification. As we shall see they are essentially the same as the singular Finsler metrics with constant...

The notion of conformal algebra appears as an algebraical language describing singular part of operator product expansion (OPE) in conformal field theory [BPZ]. Explicit algebraical exposition of this theory leads to the notion of vertex (chiral) algebra (see, e.g., [B], [DL], [FLM]). Roughly speaking, conformal algebras correspond to vertex algebras by the same way as Lie algebras correspond t...

In this paper, we shall classify “quadratic” conformal superalgebras by certain compatible pairs of a Lie superalgebra and a Novikov superalgebra. Four general constructions of such pairs are given. Moreover, we shall classify such pairs related to simple Novikov algebras.