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SIGMA 4 (2008), 036, 3 pages arXiv:0803.4331
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2008.036
Contribution to the Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Geometry Conference in honor of Thomas P. Branson
A Quartic Conformally Covariant Differential Operator for Arbitrary Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds (Summary)
Stephen M. Paneitz
Deceased
Received March 27, 2008 from Michael Eastwood; Published online March 30, 2008
Abstract
This is the original manuscript dated March 9th 1983,
typeset by the Editors for the Proceedings of the Midwest Geometry Conference
2007 held in memory of Thomas Branson. Stephen Paneitz passed away on
September 1st 1983 while attending a conference in Clausthal and
the manuscript was never published. For more than 20 years these few pages were
circulated informally. In November 2004, as a service to the mathematical
community, Tom Branson added a scan of the manuscript to his website. Here we
make it available more formally. It is surely one of the most cited unpublished
articles. The differential operator defined in this article plays a key rôle
in conformal differential geometry in dimension 4 and is now known as the
Paneitz operator.
Key words:
Paneitz operator; conformal covariance.
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