Ambient metrics with exceptional holonomy

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201003_009MaRDI QIDQ2915220zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Leistner, Pawel Nurowski

Publication date 21 September 2012

Published in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze. Serie V (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0186

zbMATH Keywords

Fefferman-Graham ambient metricsemi-Riemannian holonomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: We present conformal structures in signature (3,2) for which the holonomy of the Fefferman-Graham ambient metric is equal to the non-compact exceptional Lie group G_{2(2)}. We write down the resulting 8-parameter family of G_{2(2)}-metrics in dimension seven explicitly in an appropriately chosen coordinate system on the ambient space.

Review text

The authors describe here an explicit local construction in coordinates for a family (in 8 parameters) of semi-Riemannian metrics in dimension 7 of signature \((3,4)\) with exceptional non-compact holonomy \(G_{2(2)}\) (of split real form) sitting irreducibly in \(SO(3,4)\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe construction starts with a conformal metric (with parameters) on a 5-manifold of signature (2,3), whose normal Cartan connection has holonomy in \(G_{2(2)}\). (Those conformal structures arise naturally from generic \(2\)-distributions and are related to certain classical ODE's.)NEWLINENEWLINEThen the classical Fefferman-Graham ambient metric construction of conformal geometry is applied which gives rise to metrics of signature \((3,4)\) in dimension \(7\). First, the authors show that the ambient metrics in their case admit non-null parallel spinors, which implies that the ambient holonomy is contained in \(G_{2(2)}\). In order to prove the equality with \(G_{2(2)}\) they test the existence of Einstein metrics and metrics with a certain null condition for the Ricci tensor in the underlying conformal class, respectively. If certain parameters of the family do not vanish such metrics do not occur and the ambient holonomy must be \(G_{2(2)}\).

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