The decomposition of global conformal invariants

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Author(s): Alexakis, Spyros
Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies 182
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2012

Language: English
Pages: 449

Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 An Iterative Decomposition of Global Conformal
Invariants: The First Step
3 The Second Step: The Fe erman-Graham Ambient
Metric and the Nature of the Decomposition
4 A Result on the Structure of Local Riemannian
Invariants: The Fundamental Proposition
5 The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition:
The Simpler Cases
6 The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition:
The Hard Cases, Part I
7 The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition:
The Hard Cases, Part II
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of Authors and Terms
Index of Symbols