A GJMS construction for 2-tensors and the second variation of the total Q-curvature

DOI10.2140/PJM.2013.262.437MaRDI QIDQ354596zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yoshihiko Matsumoto

Publication date 19 July 2013

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3227

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein manifold\(Q\)-curvatureLichnerowicz Laplacianambient metricconformal manifoldGJMS construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: We construct a series of conformally invariant differential operators acting on weighted trace-free symmetric 2-tensors by a method similar to Graham-Jenne-Mason-Sparling's. For compact conformal manifolds of dimension even and greater than or equal to four with vanishing ambient obstruction tensor, one of these operators is used to describe the second variation of the total Q-curvature. An explicit formula for conformally Einstein manifolds is given in terms of the Lichnerowicz Laplacian of an Einstein representative metric.

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