A calculus for conformal hypersurfaces and new higher Willmore energy functionals

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2019-0016zbMATH Open1434.53062arXiv1611.04055OpenAlexW3000499191WikidataQ126340931 ScholiaQ126340931MaRDI QIDQ2301372FDOQ2301372

Authors: Rod Gover, Andrew K. Waldron 

Publication date: 24 February 2020

Published in: advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The invariant theory for conformal hypersurfaces is studied by treating these as the conformal infinity of a conformally compact manifold: For a given conformal hypersurface embedding, a distinguished ambient metric is found (within its conformal class) by solving a singular version of the Yamabe problem. Using existence results for asymptotic solutions to this problem, we develop the details of how to proliferate conformal hypersurface invariants. In addition we show how to compute the the solution's asymptotics. We also develop a calculus of conformal hypersurface invariant differential operators and in particular, describe how to compute extrinsically coupled analogues of conformal Laplacian powers. Our methods also enable the study of integrated conformal hypersurface invariants and their functional variations. As a main application we develop new higher dimensional analogues of the Willmore energy for embedded surfaces. This complements recent progress on the existence and construction of such functionals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04055

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zbMATH Keywords

holographyhypersurfacesconformal geometryYamabe problemWillmore energyconformally compact

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global submanifolds (53C40) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Other connections (53B15)

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