The ambient metric
Differential Geometry
2008-10-22 v2
Abstract
This paper provides details of the construction, properties and some applications of the ambient metric associated to a conformal class of metrics on a smooth manifold. Existence and uniqueness of formal expansions defining such metrics are considered. Equivalence with the expansions of associated Poincare metrics is established. Definitions and properties of conformal curvature tensors defined by ambient metrics together with formulation and proof of a jet isomorphism theorem with application to the characterization of scalar conformal invariants are given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.0919,
title = {The ambient metric},
author = {Charles Fefferman and C. Robin Graham},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0919},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
v2: 100 pages, introduction rewritten, minor editorial changes elsewhere