Sunday, April 19, 2015

Relation of conformal symmetry and traceless energy momentum tensor


In usual string theory, or conformal field theory textbook, they states traceless energy momentum tensor $T_{a}^{\phantom{a}a}=0$ implies (Here energy momentum tensor is usual one which is symmetric and follows conservation law) conformal theory. (i.e, see page 3 )


I wonder how they are related to each other.


I found similar question Why does Weyl invariance imply a traceless energy-momentum tensor? and get some idea about weyl invariance.



and get some another useful information from Conformal transformation/ Weyl scaling are they two different things? Confused! which dictates that conformal transformation and weyl transformation is totally different things .




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