Complex surfaces and null conformal Killing vector fields

DOI10.1007/S12220-023-01265-2MaRDI QIDQ6040534zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johann Davidov, Gueo Grantcharov, Oleg Mushkarov

Publication date 17 May 2023

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13770

zbMATH Keywords

Hermitian surfaceshyper-Hermitian structureshypercomplex structuresnull conformal Killing vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: We study the relation between the existence of null conformal Killing vector fields and existence of compatible complex and para-hypercomplex structures on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold with metric of signature (2,2). We establish first the topological types of pseudo-Hermitian surfaces admitting a nowhere vanishing null vector field. Then we show that a pair of orthogonal, pointwise linearly independent, null, conformal Killing vector fields defines a para-hyperhermitian structure and use this fact for a classification of the smooth compact four-manifolds admitting such a pair of vector fields. We also provide examples of neutral metrics with two orthogonal, pointwise linearly independent, null Killing vector fields on most of these manifolds.

Review text

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.

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