Volume renormalization for the Blaschke metric on strictly convex domains

Abstract

We consider the volume expansion of the Blaschke metric, which is a projectively invariant metric on a strictly convex domain in a locally flat projective manifold. When the boundary is even dimensional, we express the logarithmic coefficient L as the integral of affine invariants over the boundary. We also formulate an intrinsic geometry of the boundary as a conformal Codazzi structure and show that L gives a global conformal invariant of the boundary.

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