Standard Tractors and the Conformal Ambient Metric Construction

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 231-259

  Čap, Andreas ^a,b   Gover, A Rod ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Intl E S Inst for Math Phys   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conformal ambient metric; Conformal invariants; Fefferman Graham construction; Standard tractors

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642500429     PISSN: 0232704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024726607595     Document Type: Article

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