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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2007.10.014zbMATH Open1246.53014arXiv0707.1737OpenAlexW1981296954MaRDI QIDQ446873FDOQ446873

Authors: Ruben Manvelyan, Karapet Mkrtchyan, Ruben Mkrtchyan 

Publication date: 8 September 2012

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

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.

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

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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)

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