Geometric theory of Weyl structures

DOI10.1142/S0219199722500262MaRDI QIDQ6107851zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Cap, Thomas Mettler

Publication date 28 June 2023

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10325

zbMATH Keywords

AHS structurebi-Lagrangian structurebundle of Weyl structurespara-Kähler Einstein metricprojective structureprojectively invariant Monge-Ampère equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure theory for Lie algebras and superalgebras (17B05) Projective differential geometry (53A20) Other connections (53B15) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global submanifolds (53C40) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: Given a parabolic geometry on a smooth manifold $M$, we study a natural affine bundle $AoM$, whose smooth sections can be identified with Weyl structures for the geometry. We show that the initial parabolic geometry defines a reductive Cartan geometry on $A$, which induces an almost bi-Lagrangian structure on $A$ and a compatible linear connection on $TA$. We prove that the split-signature metric given by the almost bi-Lagrangian structure is Einstein with non-zero scalar curvature, provided the parabolic geometry is torsion-free and $|1|$-graded. We proceed to study Weyl structures via the submanifold geometry of the image of the corresponding section in $A$. For Weyl structures satisfying appropriate non-degeneracy conditions, we derive a universal formula for the second fundamental form of this image. We also show that for locally flat projective structures, this has close relations to solutions of a projectively invariant Monge-Ampere equation and thus to properly convex projective structures.

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