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This is an illustrated presentation of unimodular conformal and projective relativity, a formulation of unimodular relativity in terms of four independent fields with clear physical and geometric interpretations: conformal structure, four-volume element measure field, projective structure, and affine one-form. We present the motivation for the formalism, physical and geometrical interpretations of the independent fields, and briefly comment on its applications and prospects for quantization.
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Bradonjić, K. (2014). Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity: An Illustrated Introduction. In: Sidharth, B., Michelini, M., Santi, L. (eds) Frontiers of Fundamental Physics and Physics Education Research. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00297-2_20
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