The Decomposition of Global Conformal Invariants: Some Technical Proofs. I
Differential Geometry
2011-03-01 v2
Abstract
This paper forms part of a larger work where we prove a conjecture of Deser and Schwimmer regarding the algebraic structure of "global conformal invariants"; these are defined to be conformally invariant integrals of geometric scalars. The conjecture asserts that the integrand of any such integral can be expressed as a linear combination of a local conformal invariant, a divergence and of the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet integrand.
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@article{arxiv.0912.3757,
title = {The Decomposition of Global Conformal Invariants: Some Technical Proofs. I},
author = {Spyros Alexakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3757},
year = {2011}
}