The Ambient Metric

by C. Robin Graham and Charles Fefferman

Book Overview

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 Poincar 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691153140
• ISBN13: 9780691153148
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"