Renormalized volume

DOI10.1007/S00220-017-2920-ZzbMATH Open1372.53037arXiv1603.07367OpenAlexW3037250283MaRDI QIDQ2014277FDOQ2014277

Authors: Rod Gover, Andrew K. Waldron 

Publication date: 10 August 2017

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a universal distributional calculus for regulated volumes of metrics that are singular along hypersurfaces. When the hypersurface is a conformal infinity we give simple integrated distribution expressions for the divergences and anomaly of the regulated volume functional valid for any choice of regulator. For closed hypersurfaces or conformally compact geometries, methods from a previously developed boundary calculus for conformally compact manifolds can be applied to give explicit holographic formulae for the divergences and anomaly expressed as hypersurface integrals over local quantities (the method also extends to non-closed hypersurfaces). The resulting anomaly does not depend on any particular choice of regulator, while the regulator dependence of the divergences is precisely captured by these formulae. Conformal hypersurface invariants can be studied by demanding that the singular metric obey, smoothly and formally to a suitable order, a Yamabe type problem with boundary data along the conformal infinity. We prove that the volume anomaly for these singular Yamabe solutions is a conformally invariant integral of a local Q-curvature that generalizes the Branson Q-curvature by including data of the embedding. In each dimension this canonically defines a higher dimensional generalization of the Willmore energy/rigid string action. Recently Graham proved that the first variation of the volume anomaly recovers the density obstructing smooth solutions to this singular Yamabe problem; we give a new proof of this result employing our boundary calculus. Physical applications of our results include studies of quantum corrections to entanglement entropies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07367

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zbMATH Keywords

hypersurfacesWillmore energyYamabe-type problemBranson \(Q\)-curvaturedistributional calculusregulated volumes of metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

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