A characterization of projective and holomorphic projective structures (Q1323135)

The main topic of this paper is a problem how to recognize if some connection can be transformed by a projective or holomorphically projective change of the connection into the Levi-Civita connection. This problem is solved by using the decomposition of Weyl projective curvature tensors under the action of the special orthogonal group, as well as the decomposition of holomorphic projective curvature tensors under the action of unitary group. In addition we consider the cases when the manifold is conformally flat, Bochner flat or Einstein. Normal projective connections and projective structure related to the above-mentioned decomposition are studied too.