An Introduction to Conformal Geometry and Tractor Calculus, with a view to Applications in General Relativity
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Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)
Abstract: The following are expanded lecture notes for the course of eight one hour lectures given by the second author at the 2014 summer school Asymptotic Analysis in General Relativity held in Grenoble by the Institut Fourier. The first four lectures deal with conformal geometry and the conformal tractor calculus, taking as primary motivation the search for conformally invariant tensors and diffrerential operators. The final four lectures apply the conformal tractor calculus to the study of conformally compactified geometries, motivated by the conformal treatment of infinity in general relativity.
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- Tensors and spinors in de Sitter space
- Carrollian manifolds and null infinity: a view from Cartan geometry
- Conformal fundamental forms and the asymptotically Poincare-Einstein condition
- An ideal conformally covariant characterization of the Kerr conformal structure
- Distinguished curves and first integrals on Poincaré-Einstein and other conformally singular geometries
- CR embedded submanifolds of CR manifolds
- Twistor geometry of null foliations in complex Euclidean space
- The Schwarzian derivative and Euler-Lagrange equations
- The higher spin Laplace operator
- An ambient approach to conformal geodesics
- Klein and conformal superspaces, split algebras and spinor orbits
- Conformal invariance, complex structures and the Teukolsky connection
- Renormalization of conformal infinity as a stretched horizon
- Asymptotic shear and the intrinsic conformal geometry of null-infinity
- The \(\mathfrak{so}(d+2,2)\) minimal representation and ambient tractors: the conformal geometry of momentum space
- An embedding space approach to Carrollian CFT correlators for flat space holography
- Well-posedness of the ambient metric equations and stability of even dimensional asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes
- Dilaton from tractor and matter field from twistor
- Metrics in projective differential geometry: the geometry of solutions to the metrizability equation
- Conformal boundary operators, \(T\)-curvatures, and conformal fractional Laplacians of odd order
- A boundary-local mass cocycle and the mass of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds
- Conformal geometry on four manifolds -- Noether lecture
- Algebraic conditions for conformal superintegrability in arbitrary dimension
- Curved non-relativistic spacetimes, Newtonian gravitation and massive matter
- Type D conformal initial data
- Non-lorentzian spacetimes
- Carrollian and celestial spaces at infinity
- The holographic Hadamard condition on asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes
- Asymptotic analysis in general relativity
- Higher fundamental forms of the conformal boundary of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes
- Dynamical projective curvature in gravitation
- Tractor geometry of asymptotically flat spacetimes
- Counterexamples to inverse problems for the wave equation
- Geometry of solutions to the c-projective metrizability equation
- Note on the bundle geometry of field space, variational connections, the dressing field method, \& presymplectic structures of gauge theories over bounded regions
- Unfolding conformal geometry
- The geometry of almost Einstein \((2,3,5)\) distributions
- Renormalized volume
- Bundle geometry of the connection space, covariant Hamiltonian formalism, the problem of boundaries in gauge theories, and the dressing field method
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