| GEOMETRIC PDE SEMINAR | |
| Topic: | Renormalized Volume Coefficients and Fully Nonlinear Equations |
| Speaker: | Robin Graham |
| Affiliation: | University of Washington, Seattle and Member, School of Mathematics |
| Date: | Tuesday, March 17 |
| Time/Room: | 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101 |
The "sigma_k Yamabe problem" is a fully nonlinear generalization of the Yamabe problem, in which one attempts to find a conformal multiple of a given metric to make constant the k-th elementary symmetric function of the eigenvalues of the Schouten tensor. This talk will discuss a modification of this problem defined by the renormalized volume coefficients which arise in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The work is partly motivated by a recent result of Alice Chang and Hao Fang concerning a variational property of the renormalized volume coefficients.