Conformally Invariant Operators via Curved Casimirs: Examples

带边界的局部共形平坦流形上负曲率度量的存在性

The existence of negatively curved metrics on locally conformally flat manifolds with boundary

本文研究带边界流形上共形度量的存在性，借助 Morse 函数构造负截面曲率度量，并在无共形平坦性假设时构造正 Einstein 张量度量。

Curved versions of the Ovsienko-Redou operators

We give a complete classification of tangential bidifferential operators of total order at most $n$ which are expressed purely in terms of the Laplacian on the ambient space of an $n$-dimensional manifold. This gives a curved analogue of the classification, due to Ovsienko--Redou and Clerc, of conformally invariant bidifferential operators on the sphere. As an application, we construct a large class of formally self-adjoint conformally invariant differential operators.

Conformally invariant powers of the Laplacian -- A complete non-existence theorem

We show that on conformal manifolds of even dimension $n\geq 4$ there is no conformally invariant natural differential operator between density bundles with leading part a power of the Laplacian $Δ^{k}$ for $k>n/2$. This shows that a large class of invariant operators on conformally flat manifolds do not generalise to arbitrarily curved manifolds and that the theorem of Graham, Jenne, Mason and Sparling, asserting the existence of curved version of $Δ^k$ for $1\le k\le n/2$, is sharp.

On Uniqueness of Conformally Compact Einstein Metrics with Homogeneous Conformal Infinity

In this paper we show that for a Berger metric $\hat{g}$ on $S^3$, the non-positively curved conformally compact Einstein metric on the $4$-ball $B_1(0)$ with $(S^3, [\hat{g}])$ as its conformal infinity is unique up to isometries and it is the metric constructed by Pedersen \cite{Pedersen}. In particular, since in \cite{LiQingShi}, we proved that if the Yamabe constant of the conformal infinity $Y(S^3, [\hat{g}])$ is close to that of the round sphere then any conformally compact Einstein manifold filled in must be negatively curved and simply connected, therefore if $\hat{g}$ is a Berger metr…

一类共形不变双微分算子的形式自伴性

Formal self-adjointness of a family of conformally invariant bidifferential operators

该研究证明弯曲Ovsienko–Redou算子及相关微分算子族具有形式自伴性，验证了Case、Lin与Yuan提出的两个猜想。

Curved Casimir Operators and the BGG Machinery

We prove that the Casimir operator acting on sections of a homogeneous vector bundle over a generalized flag manifold naturally extends to an invariant differential operator on arbitrary parabolic geometries. We study some properties of the resulting invariant operators and compute their action on various special types of natural bundles. As a first application, we give a very general construction of splitting operators for parabolic geometries. Then we discuss the curved Casimir operators on differential forms with values in a tractor bundle, which nicely relates to the machinery of BGG seque…