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Conformal Differential Geometry: Q-Curvature and Conformal Holonomy: 40 (Oberwolfach Seminars, 40) - Softcover
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This book offers recent developments regarding Q-curvature and conformal holonomy. Discussion includes Q-curvature origin, its relevance in geometry, spectral theory and physics. Here emerges the influence of ideas originating in the AdS/CFT-correspondence.
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“This book grew out of an Oberwolfach student seminar on recent developments in conformal differential geometry which took place in 2007. It splits into two chapters, which to a large extent are independent of each other. Each of the chapters is an extended version of a series of lectures presented by one of the authors during the seminar and offers a nice and easily readable survey of an active area of research in conformal differential geometry.” (Andreas Cap, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 d)From the Back Cover
Conformal invariants (conformally invariant tensors, conformally covariant differential operators, conformal holonomy groups etc.) are of central significance in differential geometry and physics. Well-known examples of conformally covariant operators are the Yamabe, the Paneitz, the Dirac and the twistor operator. These operators are intimely connected with the notion of Branson’s Q-curvature. The aim of these lectures is to present the basic ideas and some of the recent developments around Q -curvature and conformal holonomy.
The part on Q -curvature starts with a discussion of its origins and its relevance in geometry and spectral theory. The following lectures describe the fundamental relation between Q -curvature and scattering theory on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. Building on this, they introduce the recent concept of Q -curvature polynomials and use these to reveal the recursive structure of Q -curvatures.
The part on conformal holonomy starts with an introduction to Cartan connections and its holonomy groups. Then we define holonomy groups of conformal manifolds, discuss its relation to Einstein metrics and recent classification results in Riemannian and Lorentzian signature. In particular, we explain the connection between conformal holonomy and conformal Killing forms and spinors, and describe Fefferman metrics in CR geometry as Lorentzian manifold with conformal holonomy SU(1,m).
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- PublisherBirkhäuser
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 3764399082
- ISBN 13 9783764399085
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages162
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