Contact metric three manifolds and Lorentzian geometry with torsion in six-dimensional supergravity (Q2207476)

The authors introduce the notion of \(\varepsilon\eta\)-Einstein \(\varepsilon\)-contact metric three-manifolds, which includes as particular cases \(\eta\)-Einstein Riemannian and Lorentzian (para) contact metric three-manifolds, but which in addition allows for the Reeb vector field to be null. It is shown that the product of an \(\varepsilon\eta\)-Einstein Lorentzian \(\varepsilon\)-contact metric three-manifold with an \(\varepsilon\eta\)-Einstein Riemannian contact metric three-manifold carries a bi-parametric family of Ricci-flat Lorentzian metric-compatible connections with isotropic, totally skew-symmetric, closed and co-closed torsion, which in turn yields a bi-parametric family of solutions of six-dimensional minimal supergravity coupled to a tensor multiplet. This result allows for the systematic construction of families of Lorentzian solutions of six-dimensional supergravity from pairs of \(\varepsilon\eta\)-Einstein contact metric three-manifolds. They also classify all left-invariant \(\varepsilon\eta\)-Einstein structures on simply connected Lie groups, paying special attention to the case in which the Reeb vector field is null.