Killing 2-forms in dimension 4

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-67519-0_7MaRDI QIDQ4612539zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Gauduchon, Andrei Moroianu

Publication date 31 January 2019

Published in Springer INdAM Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04292

zbMATH Keywords

ambi-Kähler structuresambitoric structuresHamiltonian formsKilling forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: A Killing $p$-form on a Riemannian manifold is a $p$-form whose covariant derivative is totally anti-symmetric. In this paper we give the complete (local) description of 4-dimensional Riemannian manifolds (M,g) carrying non-parallel Killing 2-forms $varphi$. If $M$ is connected and oriented, we show that there exists a dense open subset of $M$ on which one of the three exclusive situations holds: either $phi$ is everywhere degenerate and $g$ is conformal to a product metric, or $g$ is conformal to an ambik"ahler metric obtained via the Calabi construction from a polarized Riemannian surface, or $g$ is conformal to an ambitoric structure of hyperbolic type, and depends locally on two functions of one variable. We also give compact examples, by constructing infinite-dimensional families of Riemannian metrics carrying Killing 2-forms of each of the above types on $S^4$ and on Hirzebruch surfaces.

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