The ambient metric /
Author / Creator: | Fefferman, Charles, 1949- |
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Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012. |
Description: | 111 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Annals of mathematics studies ; no. 178 Annals of mathematics studies ; no. 178. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8546058 |
Summary: | 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 Poincaré 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 AdS/CFT correspondence in physics. |
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Physical Description: | 111 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780691153131 0691153132 9780691153148 0691153140 |