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Conformal harmonic forms, Branson-Gover operators and Dirichlet problem at infinity

Differential Geometry 2008-08-06 v1

Abstract

For odd dimensional Poincar\'e-Einstein manifolds (Xn+1,g)(X^{n+1},g), we study the set of harmonic kk-forms (for k<\ndemik<\ndemi) which are CmC^m (with m\nnm\in\nn) on the conformal compactification Xˉ\bar{X} of XX. This is infinite dimensional for small mm but it becomes finite dimensional if mm is large enough, and in one-to-one correspondence with the direct sum of the relative cohomology Hk(Xˉ,\plXˉ)H^k(\bar{X},\pl\bar{X}) and the kernel of the Branson-Gover \cite{BG} differential operators (Lk,Gk)(L_k,G_k) on the conformal infinity (\plXˉ,[h0])(\pl\bar{X},[h_0]). In a second time we relate the set of Cn2k+1(Λk(Xˉ))C^{n-2k+1}(\Lambda^k(\bar{X})) forms in the kernel of d+δgd+\delta_g 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 QQ curvature for forms.

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@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

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