{"product_id":"the-decomposition-of-global-conformal-invariants-9780691153483","title":"The Decomposition of Global Conformal Invariants","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddresses 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403789148503,"sku":"9780691153483","price":74.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691153483.jpg?v=1730484546","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-decomposition-of-global-conformal-invariants-9780691153483","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}