Format:
111 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif. ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780691153131
,
1283290952
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9781400840588
,
9780691153148
,
9781283290951
Series Statement:
Annals of mathematics studies no. 178
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
This book develops and applies a theory of the ambient metric in conformal geometry. This is a Lorentz metric in n+2 dimensions that encodes a conformal class of metrics in n dimensions. The ambient metric has an alternate incarnation as the Poincaré metric, a metric in n+1 dimensions having the conformal manifold as its conformal infinity. In this realization, the construction has played a central role in the AdS/CFT correspondence in physics. The existence and uniqueness of the ambient metric at the formal power series level is treated in detail. This includes the derivation of the ambien
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283290049
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fefferman, Charles, 1949 - The ambient metric Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012 ISBN 9780691153148
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691153131
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691153132
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691153140
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Ambient Metric (AM-178)
Language:
English
Subjects:
Mathematics
Keywords:
Konforme Differentialgeometrie