Selfsimilar Hessian manifolds (Q2668959)

This paper is concerned with the global as well as local structure of selfsimilar manifolds, particularly selfsimilar Hessian manifolds and selfsimilar manifolds with potential homothetic vector fields. A selfsimilar manifold is a Riemannian manifold together with a homothetic vector field \(\xi\) (homothetic vector fields are required not to be Killing). A homothetic vector field is called \textit{potential homothetic vector field} if it is locally the gradient of a function. A Hessian manifold is a triple \((M,\nabla,g)\) where \(\nabla\) is a flat torsion-free connection on the manifold \(M\) and~\(g\) is a Riemannian metric that locally is the Hessian of a function. It is called selfsimilar, if there is a vector field \(\xi\) such that \((M,g,\xi)\) is selfsimilar. A \textit{global selfsimilar manifold} is a selfsimilar manifold such that \(\xi\) is complete. The paper shows (Theorem~1.1) that a global selfsimilar manifold \((C,g,\xi)\) is isomorphic to one of the following two models: \begin{itemize} \item[1.] \((\mathbb{R}^n,\sum(dx^i)^2,\eta+\sum x^i\frac{\partial}{\partial x^i})\) where \(\eta\) is a Killing vector field. \item[2.] \((\hat M=M\times\mathbb{R}^{>0},\hat g=s^2g_M+sds\cdot\alpha,s\frac{\partial}{\partial s})\) where \(s\) is a coordinate on \(\mathbb{R}^{>0}\); furthermore \(g_M\) is a Riemannian metric and \(\alpha\) a 1-form on \(M\) satisfying \[ g_M(X,X)+2\alpha(X)+1>0 \] for any vector field on \(M\), \(X\in\Gamma(TM)\). \end{itemize} Any selfsimilar manifold is shown to be locally isomorphic to a global selfsimilar manifold. The vector field \(\rho=\sum x^i\frac{\partial}{\partial x^i}\) above is called radiant vector field. Theorem~1.2 of the paper considers the more restrictive case of global selfsimilar manifolds where \(\xi\) is a potential vector field, showing that such a manifold is either the Euclidean space with a radiant vector field or a Riemannian cone. A Hessian manifold \((M,\nabla,g)\) is called \textit{radiant} if there is a radiant vector field \(\rho\), i.e., such that \[ \nabla\rho = \mathrm{Id} \] Such a manifold is equipped with an atlas such that all transition maps are linear transformations. In the corresponding flat affine coordinates \(\rho\) thus takes the form mentioned above. The paper shows that a selfsimilar Hessian manifold with potential homothetic vector field is locally isomorphic to a product of radiant Hessian manifolds (Theorem 1.4). A description of the local structure of radiant selfsimilar Hessian manifolds is also given (Theorem 1.5).