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SIGMA, 2025 Volume 21, 002, 41 pp. (Mi sigma2119)

Holography of Higher Codimension Submanifolds: Riemannian and Conformal

Samuel  Blitz, Josef  Šilhan

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Masaryk University, Building 08, Kotlářská 2, Czech Republic

Abstract: We provide a natural generalization to submanifolds of the holographic method used to extract higher-order local invariants of both Riemannian and conformal embeddings, some of which depend on a choice of parallelization of the normal bundle. Qualitatively new behavior is observed in the higher-codimension case, giving rise to new invariants that obstruct the order-by-order construction of unit defining maps. In the conformal setting, a novel invariant (that vanishes in codimension 1) is realized as the leading transverse-order term appearing in a holographically-constructed Willmore invariant. Using these same tools, we also investigate the formal solutions to extension problems off of an embedded submanifold.

Keywords: Riemannian geometry, conformal geometry, submanifold embeddings, holography.

MSC: 53C18, 53A55, 53C21, 58J32

Received: June 1, 2024; in final form December 16, 2024; Published online January 4, 2025

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2025.002


ArXiv: 2405.07692


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