Conformal harmonic forms, Branson-Gover operators and Dirichlet problem at infinity

DOI10.4171/JEMS/271MaRDI QIDQ550559zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Erwann Aubry, Colin Guillarmou

Publication date 12 July 2011

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0552

zbMATH Keywords

\(Q\)-curvatureBranson-Gover differential operatorharmonic formPoincaré-Einstein manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14)

Abstract: For odd dimensional Poincar'e-Einstein manifolds $(X^{n+1},g)$, we study the set of harmonic $k$-forms (for $k<demi$) which are $C^m$ (with $minn$) on the conformal compactification $$ of $X$. This is infinite dimensional for small $m$ but it becomes finite dimensional if $m$ is large enough, and in one-to-one correspondence with the direct sum of the relative cohomology $$ and the kernel of the Branson-Gover cite{BG} differential operators $(L_k,G_k)$ on the conformal infinity $$. In a second time we relate the set of $$ forms in the kernel of $d+delt{a}_g$ to the conformal harmonics on the boundary in the sense of cite{BG}, providing some sort of long exact sequence adapted to this setting. This study also provides another construction of Branson-Gover differential operators, including a parallel construction of the generalization of $Q$ curvature for forms.

Review text

From the authors' abstract: For odd-dimensional Poincaré-Einstein manifolds \((X^{n+1},g)\), we study the set of harmonic \(k\)-forms (for \(k<\frac n2\)) which are \(C^m\) (with \(m\in \mathbb N\)) on the conformal compactification \(\bar X\) of \(X\). This set is infinite-dimensional for small \(m\) but it becomes finite-dimensional if \(m\) is large enough, and in one-to-one correspondence with the direct sum of the relative cohomology \(H^k(\bar X, \partial \bar X)\) and the kernel of \textit{T. Branson} and \textit{A. R. Gover} [Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 30, No.~10--12, 1611--1669 (2005; Zbl 1226.58011)] differential operators \((L_k, G_k)\) on the conformal infinity \((\partial \bar X, \left[h_0\right])\). We also relate the set \(C^{n-2k+1}\left(\bigwedge^k\left(\bar X\right)\right)\) of forms in the kernel of \(d+\delta_g\) to the conformal harmonics on the boundary in the sense of the above paper by Branson and Gover, providing some sort of long exact sequence adapted to this setting. This study also provides a construction of Branson-Gover differential operators, including a parallel construction of a generalization of the \(Q\)-curvature for forms.

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