Complex surfaces and null conformal Killing vector fields (Q6040534): Difference between revisions

The authors study the relationship between the existence of null conformal Killing vector fields and the existence of compatible complex and para-hypercomplex structures on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold with metric of signature (2,2). They first give a topological classification of compact neutral Hermitian surfaces with a nowhere vanishing null vector field. They then show that a pair of orthogonal, pointwise linearly independent, null, conformal Killing vector fields defines a para-hyperhermitian structure and use this fact to classify smooth compact 4-manifolds admitting such a pair of vector fields.