Families of conformally covariant differential operators, Q-curvature and holography
Manifolds of mappings (46T10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)
The author focuses this book on the so called \(Q\)-curvature and its relations with the conformal differential geometry. \(Q\)-curvature is a scalar local Riemannian invariant on \(n\)-dimensional manifolds, \(n\geq 2\), that generalizes the concept of Gauss curvature of surfaces. It was introduced by Thomas Bransen about 15 years ago, in relation to determinants of conformally covariant differential operators on Riemannian manifolds, (i.e., structure of Polyakov type formulas for the determinants of conformally covariant operators in higher dimensions). On an \(n\)-manifold, \(Q\)-curvature is an \(n^{th}\)-order curvature invariant, that under conformal changes of the metric is governed by an \(n^{th}\)-order linear conformally covariant differential operator of the (GJMS)-type (Graham-Jenne-Mason-Sparling-type). (For example for \(n=2\) this operator is the Laplacian and for \(n=4\) it is the Paneitz operator, see Chapter 4.) In this book the author associates to a hypersurface \(i:\Sigma\hookrightarrow M\) of a Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\), certain one-parameter families of conformally covariant local operators which map functions on \(M\) to functions on \(\Sigma\). \(Q\)-curvature and the (GJMS)-operator of the submanifold \((\Sigma, i^*g)\) appear in the respective linear and constant coefficients of these families, and the fundamental transformation law of \(Q\)-curvature is a direct consequence of the covariance of the family. In particular he introduces the specific constructions of conformally covariant families with such properties: The residue families and the tractor families. The residue families (usually working with \(\Sigma\equiv\partial M\) and \(g\) a canonical extension of a given metric on \(\Sigma\)) are defined by a certain residue construction, which has its origin in the spectral theory of Kleinian manifolds. These families can be regarded as local counterparts of the global scattering operator. They naturally lead to an understanding of \(Q\)-curvature of a metric on the boundary at infinity as part of a hologram of the associated Poincaré-Einstein metric in one higher dimension (holographic formulas). In the theory of the tractor the intrinsic \(Q\)-curvature of a submanifold \(\Sigma\subset M\) is built by using an appropriate extrinsic construction near \(\Sigma\). The tractor families are defined in terms of the conformally invariant tractor calculus. For certain classes of metrics, residue families and tractor families coincide -- such relations imply tractor formulas for GJMS-operators and \(Q\)-curvature, and are termed holographic duality. The author emphasizes also relations of this method with other well known problems in conformal differential geometry and mathematical physics, such as the Yamabe problem, the Fefferman-Graham ambient metrics, spectral theory on Poincaré-Einstein spaces, Cartan geometry, holography in quantum gravity (generalized ADS/CFT correspondence (Maldacena and Witten), i.e., correspondence between string theory on asymptotically anti-de-Sitter space-time and quantum field theory on the boundary of the space-time). The book splits in six chapters. 1. Introduction. 2. Spaces, actions, representations and curvature. 3. Conformally covariant powers of the Laplacian, \(Q\)-curvature and scattering theory. 4. Paneitz operator and Paneitz curvature. 5. Intertwining families. 6. Conformally covariant families. Remark. This beautiful and interesting research book covers a new topic in Riemannian differential geometry that intersects many areas of the actual research in Mathematics and in Mathematical Physics. Thus it can be highly recommended to all Mathematicians, since it focuses reader's attention on a new generalized Cauchy problem that we can shortly call: \(Q\)-curvature-holography.
- Holographic formula for \(Q\)-curvature
- Conformally Invariant Operators, Differential Forms, Cohomology and a Generalisation of Q-Curvature
- Conformal differential geometry. \(Q\)-curvature and conformal holonomy
- Shift operators, residue families and degenerate Laplacians
- Origins, applications and generalisations of the \(Q\)-curvature
- Conformal differential geometry. \(Q\)-curvature and conformal holonomy
- Liouville conformal field theories in higher dimensions
- Asymptotic expansions and conformal covariance of the mass of conformal differential operators
- Inversion of Rankin-Cohen operators via holographic transform
- Conformal boundary operators, \(T\)-curvatures, and conformal fractional Laplacians of odd order
- Residue families, singular Yamabe problems and extrinsic conformal Laplacians
- On singular Yamabe obstructions
- Poincaré-Lovelock metrics on conformally compact manifolds
- Symmetry breaking operators for real reductive groups of rank one
- Solutions of Liouville equations with non-trivial profile in dimensions 2 and 4
- Extrinsic curvature and conformal Gauss-Bonnet for four-manifolds with corner
- Knapp-Stein type intertwining operators for symmetric pairs. II. The translation principle and intertwining operators for spinors
- Conformally covariant bi-differential operators for differential forms
- The compact picture of symmetry-breaking operators for rank-one orthogonal and unitary groups
- Metrics in projective differential geometry: the geometry of solutions to the metrizability equation
- Bernstein-Sato identities and conformal symmetry breaking operators
- Summation formulas for GJMS-operators and \(Q\)-curvatures on the Möbius sphere
- Elliptic problems with integral diffusion
- Algebraic analysis of scalar generalized Verma modules of Heisenberg parabolic type I: \(\mathsf{A}_{n}\)-series
- Singular conformally invariant trilinear forms. II: The higher multiplicity case
- Intertwining operators and the restriction of representations of rank-one orthogonal groups
- A perturbation result for the \(Q_{\gamma}\) curvature problem on \(\mathbb S^n\)
- Conformal operators on weighted forms; their decomposition and null space on Einstein manifolds
- Holographic formula for \(Q\)-curvature
- Invariant differential operators on H-type groups and discrete components in restrictions of complementary series of rank one semisimple groups
- F-method for symmetry breaking operators
- Branching problems in reproducing kernel spaces
- Computation of weighted Bergman inner products on bounded symmetric domains and restriction to subgroups
- Differential symmetry breaking operators. I: General theory and F-method
- Differential symmetry breaking operators. II: Rankin-Cohen operators for symmetric pairs
- Geometry of solutions to the c-projective metrizability equation
- Restriction to symmetric subgroups of unitary representations of rank one semisimple Lie groups
- Higher symmetries of the conformal powers of the Laplacian on conformally flat manifolds
- Classification of differential symmetry breaking operators for differential forms
- Symmetry breaking for representations of rank one orthogonal groups
- Volume renormalization for singular Yamabe metrics
- On Branson's Q-curvature of order eight
- On boundary value problems for some conformally invariant differential operators
- Explicit formulas for GJMS-operators and Q-curvatures
- Singular invariant trilinear forms and covariant (bi-)differential operators under the conformal group
- Non-uniqueness results for critical metrics of regularized determinants in four dimensions
- Conformal Symmetry Breaking Operators for Anti-de Sitter Spaces
- The renormalized volume and uniformization of conformal structures
- Residue formula for regular symmetry breaking operators
- Boundary operators associated with the Paneitz operator
- Conformal symmetry breaking differential operators on differential forms
- A geometrical point of view for branching problems for holomorphic discrete series of conformal Lie groups
- Higher fundamental forms of the conformal boundary of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes
- On local behavior of singular positive solutions to nonlocal elliptic equations
- Symmetry breaking operators for line bundles over real projective spaces
- Another approach to Juhl's conformally covariant differential operators from \(S^n\) to \(S^{n-1}\)
- Poincaré-Einstein holography for forms via conformal geometry in the bulk
- Essential conformal actions of \({{\mathrm{PSL}}}(2,\mathbb{R})\) on real-analytic compact Lorentz manifolds
- Juhl's formulae for GJMS operators and \(Q\)-curvatures
- Universal recursive formulae for Q-curvatures
- Conformal harmonic forms, Branson-Gover operators and Dirichlet problem at infinity
- Extrinsic Paneitz operators and Q-curvatures for hypersurfaces
- Computation of weighted Bergman inner products on bounded symmetric domains and Parseval-Plancherel-type formulas under subgroups
- Holographic formula for \(Q\)-curvature. II.
- Conformal anomalies for (maximal) 6d conformal supergravity
- On the intertwining differential operators from a line bundle to a vector bundle over the real projective space
- The Poisson kernels for conformal boundary operators associated to the triharmonic equation and its applications
- Convergence rate of the Q-curvature flow
- The source operator method: an overview
- The mathematical work of Toshiyuki Kobayashi
- Singular solutions of fractional order conformal Laplacians
- Computation of weighted Bergman inner products on bounded symmetric domains and restriction to subgroups. II
- Recent advances in branching problems of representations
- The \(\mathcal{C} \)-connection and the 4-dimensional Einstein spaces
- 8D conformal gravity with Einstein sector, and its relation to the Q-curvature
- A sharp Sobolev trace inequality of order four on three-balls
- Constant Q-curvature metrics near the hyperbolic metric
- Symmetry breaking differential operators, the source operator and Rodrigues formulae
- Shift operators, residue families and degenerate Laplacians
- Branching laws for Verma modules and applications in parabolic geometry. I
- Heat kernel expansions, ambient metrics and conformal invariants
- Ambient metrics for \(n\)-dimensional \(pp\)-waves
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