The ambient metric
by Fefferman, Charles, Graham, C. Robin
fromAnnals of mathematics studies
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Type: Book
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 dime…