Overdetermined Systems, Conformal Differential Geometry, and the BGG Complex

DOI10.1007/978-0-387-73831-4_1zbMATH Open1182.58008arXivmath/0610225OpenAlexW24321977MaRDI QIDQ5455484FDOQ5455484

Authors: Andreas Cap 

Publication date: 3 April 2008

Published in: Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is an expanded version of a series of two lectures given at the IMA summer program "Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations". The main part of the article describes the Riemannian version of the prolongation procedure for certain overdetermined system obtained recently in joint work with T.P. Branson, M.G. Eastwood, and A.R. Gover. First a simple special case is discussed, then the (Riemannian) procedure is described in general. The prolongation procedure was derived from a simplification of the construction of Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand (BGG) sequences of invariant differential operators for certain geometric structures. The version of this construction for conformal structures is described next. Finally, we discuss generalizations of both the prolongation procedure and the construction of invariant operators to other geometric structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610225

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal geometryinvariant differential operatorprolongationparabolic geometryOverdetermined system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Differential complexes (58J10) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10)

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