Conformal harmonic forms, Branson-Gover operators and Dirichlet problem at infinity
Abstract
For odd dimensional Poincar\'e-Einstein manifolds , we study the set of harmonic -forms (for ) which are (with ) on the conformal compactification of . This is infinite dimensional for small but it becomes finite dimensional if is large enough, and in one-to-one correspondence with the direct sum of the relative cohomology and the kernel of the Branson-Gover \cite{BG} differential operators on the conformal infinity . In a second time we relate the set of forms in the kernel of to the conformal harmonics on the boundary in the sense of \cite{BG}, providing some sort of long exact sequence adapted to this setting. This study also provides another construction of Branson-Gover differential operators, including a parallel construction of the generalization of curvature for forms.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.0552,
title = {Conformal harmonic forms, Branson-Gover operators and Dirichlet problem at infinity},
author = {Erwann Aubry and Colin Guillarmou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0552},
year = {2008}
}
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35 pages