Conformally invariant powers of the Laplacian, Q-curvature, and tractor calculus

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2002-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0201030v3

Comm. Math. Phys. 235 (2003), no. 2, 339-378.

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Mathematical Physics

42 pages. No figures. Record of changes: V1, 15 January 2002: Original posting. V2, 17 January 2002: Changing comment fields.

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00220-002-0790-4

We describe an elementary algorithm for expressing, as explicit formulae in tractor calculus, the conformally invariant GJMS operators due to C.R. Graham et alia. These differential operators have leading part a power of the Laplacian. Conformal tractor calculus is the natural induced bundle calculus associated to the conformal Cartan connection. Applications discussed include standard formulae for these operators in terms of the Levi-Civita connection and its curvature and a direct definition and formula for T. Branson's so-called Q-curvature (which integrates to a global conformal invariant) as well as generalisations of the operators and the Q-curvature. Among examples, the operators of order 4, 6, and 8 and the related Q-curvatures are treated explicitly. The algorithm exploits the ambient metric construction of Fefferman and Graham and includes a procedure for converting the ambient curvature and its covariant derivatives into tractor calculus expressions. This is partly based on "Standard tractors and the conformal ambient metric construction" (A. Cap and A.R. Gover, math.DG/0207016), where the relationship of the normal standard tractor bundle to the ambient construction is described.

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