Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
2006-07-04
Commun.Math.Phys.279:637-668,2008
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
23 pages, no figures (v2): proofs simplified, references added (v3): minor changes
Scientific paper
10.1007/s00220-008-0423-7
The renormalized volume of hyperbolic manifolds is a quantity motivated by the AdS/CFT correspondence of string theory and computed via a certain regularization procedure. The main aim of the present paper is to elucidate its geometrical meaning. We use another regularization procedure based on surfaces equidistant to a given convex surface \partial N. The renormalized volume computed via this procedure is equal to what we call the W-volume of the convex region N given by the usual volume of N minus the quarter of the integral of the mean curvature over \partial N. The W-volume satisfies some remarkable properties. First, this quantity is self-dual in the sense explained in the paper. Second, it verifies some simple variational formulas analogous to the classical geometrical Schlafli identities. These variational formulas are invariant under a certain transformation that replaces the data at \partial N by those at infinity of M. We use the variational formulas in terms of the data at infinity to give a simple geometrical proof of results of Takhtajan et al on the Kahler potential on various moduli spaces.
Krasnov Kirill
Schlenker Jean-Marc
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