Four-dimensional Kähler metrics admitting c-projective vector fields

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2014.07.005MaRDI QIDQ2253729zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Mettler, S. Rosemann, A. V. Bolsinov, Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 12 February 2015

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0517

zbMATH Keywords

\(c\)-projective geometryHamiltonian 2-formsKähler manifoldYano-Obata conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Kähler manifolds: generalizations, classification (32J27) Projective connections (53B10) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: A vector field on a K"ahler manifold is called c-projective if its flow preserves the J-planar curves. We give a complete local classification of K"ahler real 4-dimensional manifolds that admit an essential c-projective vector field. An important technical step is a local description of 4-dimensional c-projectively equivalent metrics of arbitrary signature. As an application of our results we prove the natural analog of the classical Yano-Obata conjecture in the pseudo-Riemannian 4-dimensional case.

Review text

Let \((M,J,\nabla)\) be a real \(2n\)-dimensional smooth manifold equipped with a complex structure \(J\in\mathrm{End}(TM)\) which is parallel with respect to a torsion-free affine connection \(\nabla\). A \(J\)-planar curve is a regular curve \(\gamma:I\in \mathbb R\rightarrow M\) such that the \(2\)-plane spanned by \(\dot{\gamma}\) and \(J\dot{\gamma}\) is parallel along \(\gamma\), i.e., \(\nabla_{\dot{\gamma}} \dot{\gamma} \wedge \dot{\gamma}\wedge J \dot{\gamma}=0\). A vector field \(v\) on \((M,J,\nabla)\) is called \(c\)-projective if its flow maps \(J\)-planar curves to \(J\)-planar curves. In this paper, the authors study the essential \(c\)-projective vector fields on a Kähler manifold with Levi-Civita connections associated to Hermitian metrics with respect to \(J\) of arbitrary signature. The term `essential' means that the vector field is not an affine vector field, i.e., it does not preserve the Levi-Civita connection. They establish a complete local classification of Kähler real \(4\)-dimensional manifolds which admit an essential \(c\)-projective vector field. Also, they give an important local description of \(c\)-projectively equivalent (i.e., sharing the same \(J\)-planar curves) four-dimensional split-signature Kähler metrics. Finally, the authors prove the analogue of the classical Yano-Obata conjecture in the pseudo-Riemannian \(4\)-dimensional case.

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