Conformal structures associated to generic rank 2 distributions on 5-manifolds -- characterization and Killing-field decomposition

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.081zbMath1191.53016arXiv0908.0483OpenAlexW2126847907MaRDI QIDQ970265

Katja Sagerschnig, Matthias Hammerl

Publication date: 17 May 2010

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0483

zbMATH Keywords

conformal geometrygeneric distributionstractor calculusFefferman constructionalmost Einstein scalesconformal Killing fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Other connections (53B15) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10)

Related Items (19)

Homogeneous real \((2,3,5)\) distributions with isotropy ⋮ Analytic torsion of generic rank two distributions in dimension five ⋮ Local type I metrics with holonomy in \(\mathrm{G}_2^\ast\) ⋮ Differential invariants of curves in \(G_2\) flag varieties ⋮ Subtleties concerning conformal tractor bundles ⋮ Transitive conformal holonomy groups ⋮ New relations between G2 geometries in dimensions 5 and 7 ⋮ Coupling solutions of BGG-equations in conformal spin geometry ⋮ Local equivalence of some maximally symmetric rolling distributions and \(SU(2)\) Pfaffian systems ⋮ Holonomy reductions of Cartan geometries and curved orbit decompositions ⋮ The geometry of almost Einstein \((2,3,5)\) distributions ⋮ The twistor spinors of generic 2- and 3-distributions ⋮ On quaternionic contact Fefferman spaces ⋮ Projective geometry of Sasaki–Einstein structures and their compactification ⋮ The heat asymptotics on filtered manifolds ⋮ Aspects of conformal holonomy ⋮ Para-Kähler-Einstein \(4\)-manifolds and non-integrable twistor distributions ⋮ Pure spinors, intrinsic torsion and curvature in odd dimensions ⋮ Decomposable conformal holonomy in Riemannian signature

This page was built for publication: Conformal structures associated to generic rank 2 distributions on 5-manifolds -- characterization and Killing-field decomposition