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Book SynopsisAddresses a basic question in differential geometry that was first considered by physicists Stanley Deser and Adam Schwimmer in 1993 in their study of conformal anomalies.
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*1. Introduction, pg. 1*2. An Iterative Decomposition of Global Conformal Invariants: The First Step, pg. 19*3. The Second Step: The Fefferman-Graham Ambient Metric and the Nature of the Decomposition, pg. 71*4. A Result on the Structure of Local Riemannian Invariants: The Fundamental Proposition, pg. 135*5. The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition: The Simpler Cases, pg. 211*6. The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition: The Hard Cases, Part I, pg. 297*7. The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition: The Hard Cases, Part II, pg. 361*A. Appendix, pg. 403*Bibliography, pg. 443*Index of Authors and Terms, pg. 447*Index of Symbols, pg. 449
