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Families of Conformally Covariant Differential Operators, Q-Curvature and Holography

The central object of the book is a subtle scalar Riemannian curvature quantity in even dimensions which is called Branson's Q-curvature. It was introduced by Thomas Branson about 15 years ago in connection with an attempt to systematise the structure of conformal anomalies of determinants of c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Juhl, Andreas (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Progress in Mathematics, 275
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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