Geometric realizations, curvature decompositions, and Weyl manifolds (Q617962)

Let \(N\) be a pseudo-Riemannian manifold with the pseudo-Riemannian metric \(g\) and \(\nabla\) a torsion free connection on the tangent bundle \(TN\) of \(N\). The triple \((N,g,\nabla)\) is called a Weyl manifold if the following identity is satisfied \[ \nabla g=-2\phi\otimes g \] for some \(\phi\in C^{\infty}(T^*N)\). Let \(V\) be a real vector space of dimension \(n\geq 2\) equipped with a non-degenerate symmetric inner product \(h\) and \(A\) a Weyl generalized curvature tensor in \(V\). The triple \((V,h,A)\) is called a Weyl curvature model. In this paper, the authors prove that any Weyl curvature model can be geometrically realized by a Weyl manifold.