Download or read book Families of Conformally Covariant Differential Operators, Q-Curvature and Holography written by Andreas Juhl and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2009-08-29 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies structural properties of Q-curvature from an extrinsic point of view by regarding it as a derived quantity of certain conformally covariant families of differential operators which are associated to hypersurfaces.