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C. Robin Graham

Charles Robin Graham is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Washington, known for a number of contributions to the field of conformal geometry and CR geometry; his collaboration with Charles Fefferman on the ambient construction has been particularly widely cited. The GJMS operators are, in part, named for him. He is a 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Graham received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981, under the direction of Elias Stein.

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Charles Robin Graham is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Washington, known for a number of contributions to the field of conformal geometry and CR geometry; his collaboration with Charles Fefferman on the ambient construction has been particularly widely cited. The GJMS operators are, in part, named for him.1 He is a 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.2 Graham received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981, under the direction of Elias Stein.3

Major publications

  • Fefferman, Charles; Graham, C. Robin. Conformal invariants. The mathematical heritage of Élie Cartan (Lyon, 1984). Astérisque 1985, Numéro Hors Série, 95–116.
  • Graham, C. Robin; Jenne, Ralph; Mason, Lionel J.; Sparling, George A.J. Conformally invariant powers of the Laplacian. I. Existence. J. London Math. Soc. (2) 46 (1992), no. 3, 557–565.
  • Fefferman, Charles; Graham, C. Robin. The Ambient Metric. Annals of Mathematics Studies 178, Princeton University Press, 2012.4
References

References

  1. Baum, Helga; Juhl, Andreas (2011). "Section 1.3: GJMS-operators and Branson's Q-curvatures". Conformal Differential Geometry: Q-Curvature and Conformal Holonomy. Oberwolfach Seminars. Vol. 40. Springer. pp. 21ff. ISBN 9783764399092.
  2. Choi, Rose (November 1, 2012). "AMS Fellows Named". Department of Mathematics, University of Washington. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
  3. C. Robin Graham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Reviews of The Ambient Metric: Andreas Cap, Zbl 1243.53004; Michael G. Eastwood, MR 2858236; Michael G. Eastwood, Bull. AMS, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01435-6; Rod Gover, SIAM Rev., doi:10.1137/130973478