1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996384474503316

Autore

Scudéry Madeleine de <1607-1701.>

Titolo

Amaryllis to Tityrus [[electronic resource] ] : being the first heroick harangue of the excellent pen of Monsieur Scvdery, a witty and pleasant novel / / Englished by a person of honour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Will. Cademan ..., 1681

Descrizione fisica

[2], 86, [8] p

Altri autori (Persone)

Person of honour

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Amaryllis to Tityrus is part of Les femmes illustres, variously attributed to Madeleine de Scudéry and to her brother Georges.  Cf. information in notes in Bib. nat. and NUC pre-1956.

Advertisement: p. [2]-[8] at end.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789714703321

Autore

Fefferman Charles <1949->

Titolo

The ambient metric [[electronic resource] /] / Charles Fefferman, C. Robin Graham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-29095-2

9786613290953

1-4008-4058-9

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (124 p.)

Collana

Annals of mathematics studies ; ; no. 178

Classificazione

MAT012020

Altri autori (Persone)

GrahamC. Robin <1954->

Disciplina

516.3/7

Soggetti

Conformal geometry

Conformal invariants

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Ambient Metrics -- Chapter Three. Formal Theory -- Chapter Four. Poincaré Metrics -- Chapter Five. Self-dual Poincaré Metrics -- Chapter Six. Conformal Curvature Tensors -- Chapter Seven. Conformally Flat and Conformally Einstein Spaces -- Chapter Eight. Jet Isomorphism -- Chapter Nine. Scalar Invariants -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. The existence and uniqueness of the ambient metric at the formal power series level is treated in detail. This includes the derivation of the ambient obstruction tensor and an explicit analysis of the special cases of conformally flat and conformally Einstein spaces. Poincaré metrics are introduced and shown to be equivalent to the ambient formulation. Self-dual Poincaré metrics in four dimensions are considered as a special case, leading to a formal power series proof of LeBrun's collar neighborhood theorem



proved originally using twistor methods. Conformal curvature tensors are introduced and their fundamental properties are established. A jet isomorphism theorem is established for conformal geometry, resulting in a representation of the space of jets of conformal structures at a point in terms of conformal curvature tensors. The book concludes with a construction and characterization of scalar conformal invariants in terms of ambient curvature, applying results in parabolic invariant theory.