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Residues of manifolds

Differential Geometry 2023-08-16 v4 Metric Geometry

Abstract

The Riesz zz-energy of a manifold XX is the integration of the distance between two points to the power zz over the product space X×XX\times X. Considered as a function of a complex variable zz, it can be generalized to a meromorphic function by analytic continuation, which we will call the meromorphic energy function of XX. It has only simple poles at some negative integers. The residues of a manifold XX are the residues of the meromorphic energy function. For example, the volume and the Willmore energy for surfaces in R3\mathbb{R}^3 can be obtained as residues. In this paper we first show the M\"obius invariance of the residue at z=2dimXz=-2\dim X of a closed submanifold or a compact body in a Euclidean space. We introduce the relative residues for compact bodies and weighted residues, and show that the scalar curvature and the mean curvature as well as the Euler characteristic of compact bodies of dimension less than 44 can be expressed in terms of residues and local residues. We study the order of differentiaion of a local defining function of XX that is necessary to obtain the (global) residues when XX is a closed submanifold of a Euclidean space. We also show the inclusion-exclusion principle. Residues appear to be similar to quantities obtained by asymptotic expansion such as intrinsic volumes (Lipschitz-Killing curvatures), spectra of Laplacian, and the Graham-Witten energy. We show that residues are independent from them. Finally we introduce a \M invariant principal curvature energy for 44-dimensional hypersurfaces in R5\mathbb{R}^5, and express the Graham-Witten energy in terms of the residues, Weyl tensor, and this M\"obius invariant principal curvature energy.

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@article{arxiv.2012.01713,
  title  = {Residues of manifolds},
  author = {Jun O'Hara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01713},
  year   = {2023}
}

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