Conformal Smectics and their Many Metrics
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❄️ cond-mat.soft
cond-mat.stat-mechgr-qchep-thmath-phmath.DGmath.MP
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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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