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• Ambient construction — In conformal geometry, the ambient construction refers to a construction of Charles Fefferman and Robin Graham [Fefferman, C. and Graham, R. Conformal invariants , in Élie Cartan et les Mathématiques d Aujourdui , Asterisque (1985), 95 116.] for… …   Wikipedia

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