The Ambient Obstruction Tensor and Q-Curvature
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
It is shown that the variational derivative of the integral of Branson's Q-curvature is the ambient obstruction tensor of Fefferman-Graham. A classification of irreducible conformally invariant tensors modulo quadratic and higher degree terms in curvature is established.
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@article{arxiv.math/0405068,
title = {The Ambient Obstruction Tensor and Q-Curvature},
author = {C. Robin Graham and Kengo Hirachi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0405068},
year = {2007}
}
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12 pages