Q-curvature and Poincaré metrics

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Publication:699269

DOI10.4310/MRL.2002.V9.N2.A2zbMATH Open1016.53031arXivmath/0110271OpenAlexW2082107700MaRDI QIDQ699269FDOQ699269


Authors: C. Robin Graham, Charles Fefferman Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 30 July 2003

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This article presents a new definition of Branson's Q-curvature in even-dimensional conformal geometry. We derive the Q-curvature as a coefficient in the asymptotic expansion of the formal solution of a boundary problem at infinity for the Laplacian in the Poincare metric associated to the conformal structure. This gives an easy proof of the result of Graham-Zworski that the log coefficient in the volume expansion of a Poincare metric is a multiple of the integral of the Q-curvature, and leads to a definition of a non-local version of the Q-curvature in odd dimensions.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0110271




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