On the decomposition of global conformal invariants. I.

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2009.170.1241zbMATH Open1190.53028arXivmath/0509571OpenAlexW2569234495MaRDI QIDQ972562FDOQ972562

Authors: Spyros Alexakis 

Publication date: 20 May 2010

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is the first of two papers where we address and partially confirm a conjecture of Deser and Schwimmer, originally postulated in high energy physics. The objects of study are scalar Riemannian quantities constructed out of the curvature and its covariant derivatives, whose integrals over compact manifolds are invariant under conformal changes of the underlying metric. Our main conclusion is that each such quantity that locally depends only on the curvature tensor (without covariant derivatives) can be written as a linear combination of the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet integrand and a scalar conformal invariant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509571

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zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theoremPfaffianQ-curvatureDeser-Schwimmer conjecturescalar conformal invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

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