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Extrinsic Paneitz operators and Q-curvatures for hypersurfaces

Differential Geometry 2022-04-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

For any hypersurface of a Riemannian manifold, recent works introduced the notions of extrinsic conformal Laplacians and extrinsic Q-curvatures. Here we announce explicit formulas for the extrinsic Paneitz operators P_4 and the corresponding extrinsic Q-curvatures for totally umbilic hypersurfaces in any dimension. Moreover, we state explicit formulas for the critical extrinsic P_4 and the total integral of the critical extrinsic Q_4 in the general case. This integral is a global conformal invariant. Finally, we establish an analog of the Alexakis-Deser-Schwimmer decomposition of the critical extrinsic Q_4.

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@article{arxiv.2110.04838,
  title  = {Extrinsic Paneitz operators and Q-curvatures for hypersurfaces},
  author = {Andreas Juhl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.04838},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

9 pages, research announcement, corrected misprints and minor revision of some details

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