The Decomposition of Global Conformal Invariants : Some Technical
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This paper forms part of a larger work where we prove a conjecture of Deser and Schwimmer regarding the algebraic structure of “global conformal invariants”; these are defined to be conformally invariant integrals of geometric scalars. The conjecture asserts that the integrand of any such integral can be expressed as a linear combination of a local conformal invariant, a divergence and of the Chern–Gauss–Bonnet integrand.
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