Conformal invariant powers of the Laplacian, Fefferman-Graham ambient metric and Ricci gauging

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2007.10.014MaRDI QIDQ446873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruben Manvelyan, Karapet Mkrtchyan, Ruben Mkrtchyan

Publication date 8 September 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1737

zbMATH Keywords

Fefferman-Graham ambient metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: The hierarchy of conformally invariant k-th powers of the Laplacian acting on a scalar field with scaling dimensions $Delt{a}_{(k)}=k-d/2$, k=1,2,3 as obtained in the recent work [1] is rederived using the Fefferman-Graham d+2 dimensional ambient space approach. The corresponding mysterious "holographic" structure of these operators is clarified. We explore also the d+2 dimensional ambient space origin of the Ricci gauging procedure proposed by A. Iorio, L. O'Raifeartaigh, I. Sachs and C. Wiesendanger as another method of constructing the Weyl invariant Lagrangians. The corresponding emph{gauged} ambient metric, Fefferman-Graham expansion and extended Penrose-Brown-Henneaux transformations are proposed and analyzed.

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