PONTRJAGIN FORMS AND INVARIANT OBJECTS RELATED TO THE Q-CURVATURE

DOI10.1142/S0219199707002460zbMath1125.53024arXivmath/0511311OpenAlexW2064511194MaRDI QIDQ3594933

A. Rod Gover, Thomas P. Branson

Publication date: 9 August 2007

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511311

zbMATH Keywords

Pfaffian\(Q\)-curvatureEuler formconformal differential geometryglobal geometric invariantsPontrjagin formsdifferential invariants (local)

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