Einstein-like geometric structures on surfaces

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201101_002MaRDI QIDQ2864585zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 25 November 2013

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/1011.5723

affine structure conformal structure Einstein-Weyl structure Weyl structure

Affine differential geometry (53A15) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16)

Abstract: An AH (affine hypersurface) structure is a pair comprising a projective equivalence class of torsion-free connections and a conformal structure satisfying a compatibility condition which is automatic in two dimensions. They generalize Weyl structures, and a pair of AH structures is induced on a co-oriented non-degenerate immersed hypersurface in flat affine space. The author has defined for AH structures Einstein equations, which specialize on the one hand to the usual Einstein Weyl equations and, on the other hand, to the equations for affine hyperspheres. Here these equations are solved for Riemannian signature AH structures on compact orientable surfaces, the deformation spaces of solutions are described, and some aspects of the geometry of these structures are related. Every such structure is either Einstein Weyl (in the sense defined for surfaces by Calderbank) or is determined by a pair comprising a conformal structure and a cubic holomorphic differential, and so by a convex flat real projective structure. In the latter case it can be identified with a solution of the Abelian vortex equations on an appropriate power of the canonical bundle. On the cone over a surface of genus at least two carrying an Einstein AH structure there are Monge-Amp`ere metrics of Lorentzian and Riemannian signature and a Riemannian Einstein K"ahler affine metric. A mean curvature zero spacelike immersed Lagrangian submanifold of a para-K"ahler four-manifold with constant para-holomorphic sectional curvature inherits an Einstein AH structure, and this is used to deduce some restrictions on such immersions.

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In the work [``Geometric structures modeled on affine hypersurfaces and generalizations of the Einstein Weyl and affine hypersphere equations, Preprint, \url{arXiv:0909.1897}], the author defined a class of geometric structures, called affine hypersurface structures (AH structures) and affine hypersurface equations. They are the generalizations of Weyl structures (equations) etc. In this paper, the author solves these equations on compact orientable surfaces and describes some aspects of their geometry.NEWLINENEWLINEThe contents of this paper is:NEWLINENEWLINE1. IntroductionNEWLINENEWLINE2. Notation and terminologyNEWLINENEWLINE3. Holomorphic differentials and conformal Killing and Codazzi tensorsNEWLINENEWLINE4. AH structures on surfacesNEWLINENEWLINE5. Curvature of an AH structureNEWLINENEWLINE6. Einstein equationsNEWLINENEWLINE7. Classification of Einstein AH structures by scalar curvature and genusNEWLINENEWLINE8. Relation with Abelian vortex equationsNEWLINENEWLINE9. Einstein AH structures on compact orientable surfaces of genus at least twoNEWLINENEWLINE{10}. Einstein-Weyl structures on the sphere and torusNEWLINENEWLINE{11}. Convexity and Hessian metricsNEWLINENEWLINE{12}. Lagrangian immersions in (para)-Kähler space forms

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