2. An Iterative Decomposition of Global Conformal Invariants: The First Step

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. An Iterative Decomposition of Global Conformal Invariants: The First Step 19
6. 3. The Second Step: The Fefferman-Graham Ambient Metric and the Nature of the Decomposition 71
7. 4. A Result on the Structure of Local Riemannian Invariants: The Fundamental Proposition 135
8. 5. The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition: The Simpler Cases 211
9. 6. The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition: The Hard Cases, Part I 297
10. 7. The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition: The Hard Cases, Part II 361
11. A. Appendix 403
12. Bibliography 443
13. Index of Authors and Terms 447
14. Index of Symbols 449