On a natural map between twistor spaces

Abstract: A diffeomorphism between the twistor spaces of two Riemannian metrics on a smooth manifold is defined by means of a well-known folklore construction. It is shown that this diffeomorphism is a holomorphic map with respect to the Atiyah-Hitchin-Singer, respectively Eells-Salamon, almost complex structure if and only if the two metrics are conformal, respectively homothetic. In these cases, the diffeomorphism is the identity map and the result obtained provides an interpretation of the well-known fact that the Atiyah-Hitchin-Singer almost complex structure of a twistor space is invariant under conformal changes of the metric on the base manifold, while that of Eells-Salamon is not invariant in general. Another problem discussed in the paper is when the diffeomorphism mentioned above is a harmonic map with respect to natural families of Riemannian metrics on the twistor spaces defined by means of the two Riemannian metrics. It is proved that if the metrics are conformal this happens if and only if they are homothetic.

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Twistor spaces, conformal changes, and metric connections on the base manifold

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