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On essential conformal groups and a conformal invariant

Augustin Banyaga
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
- Vol. 68, Iss: 1, pp 10-15
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In this paper, it was shown that various conformal groups, including classical conformal diffeomorphism groups, are essential and that their essentiality is equivalent to the non-vanishing of a conformal cohomological invariant.
Abstract
We show that various conformal groups, including classical conformal diffeomorphism groups are essential. The essentiality is shown to be equivalent to the non-vanishing of a conformal cohomological invariant.

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