On Gauss-Bonnet curvatures

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.118zbMATH Open1133.53026arXiv0709.4376MaRDI QIDQ2473528FDOQ2473528

Authors: Mohammed-Larbi Labbi 

Publication date: 27 February 2008

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The $(2k)$-th Gauss-Bonnet curvature is a generalization to higher dimensions of the $(2k)$-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet integrand, it coincides with the usual scalar curvature for $k=1$. The Gauss-Bonnet curvatures are used in theoretical physics to describe gravity in higher dimensional space times where they are known as the Lagrangian of Lovelock gravity, Gauss-Bonnet Gravity and Lanczos gravity. In this paper we present various aspects of these curvature invariants and review their variational properties. In particular, we discuss natural generalizations of the Yamabe problem, Einstein metrics and minimal submanifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4376

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zbMATH Keywords

Lovelock gravityGauss-Bonnet gravitygeneralized Yamabe problemGauss-Bonnet curvaturesgeneralized Einstein metricsgeneralized minimal submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

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• Modular Gaussian curvature
• Lagrange multipliers and Gauss–Bonnet-type invariants in Riemann–Cartan space
• Universal curvature identities. II.
• Universal curvature identities
• Variational properties of the Gauss-Bonnet curvatures
• Conic degeneration of the Gauss-Bonnet operator
• Odd Pfaffian forms
• Poincaré-Lovelock metrics on conformally compact manifolds
• Defining curvature as a measure via Gauss-Bonnet on certain singular surfaces
• Intrinsic geometry of curves and the Bonnor's equation
• Analytic continuation, the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem, and the Euler-Lagrange equations in Lovelock theory for indefinite signature metrics
• Transplanting geometrical structures
• The Gauss-Bonnet-Chern mass of higher-codimension graphs
• Euler-Lagrange formulas for pseudo-Kähler manifolds

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