Conformal Smectics and their Many Metrics
arXiv:1111.7282 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.85.050701
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.
5 pages, figures included
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