Conformally Invariant Operators, Differential Forms, Cohomology and a Generalisation of Q-Curvature

DOI10.1080/03605300500299943zbMath1226.58011arXivmath/0309085OpenAlexW2048056222MaRDI QIDQ5713474

A. Rod Gover, Thomas P. Branson

Publication date: 14 December 2005

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309085

zbMATH Keywords

cohomologyinvariant differential operatorsgauge theoryconformal geometryQ-curvatureelliptic complexambient constructiontractors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

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