Projective compactness and conformal boundaries

DOI10.1007/S00208-016-1370-9MaRDI QIDQ343186zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rod Gover, Andreas Cap

Publication date 25 November 2016

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4225

zbMATH Keywords

pseudo-Riemannian manifoldLevi-Civita connectionasymptotic formconformal compactnessprojective second fundamental formtractor bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Projective connections (53B10)

Abstract: Let $overlineM$ be a smooth manifold with boundary $partialM$ and interior $M$. Consider an affine connection $abla$ on $M$ for which the boundary is at infinity. Then $abla$ is projectively compact of order $alpha$ if the projective structure defined by $abla$ smoothly extends to all of $overlineM$ in a specific way that depends on no particular choice of boundary defining function. Via the Levi--Civita connection, this concept applies to pseudo--Riemannian metrics on $M$. We study the relation between interior geometry and the possibilities for compactification, and then develop the tools that describe the induced geometry on the boundary. We prove that a pseudo--Riemannian metric on $M$ which is projectively compact of order two admits a certain asymptotic form. This form was known to be sufficient for projective compactness, so the result establishes that it provides an equivalent characterization. From a projectively compact connection on $M$, one obtains a projective structure on $overlineM$, which induces a conformal class of (possibly degenerate) bundle metrics on the tangent bundle to the hypersurface $partialM$. Using the asymptotic form, we prove that in the case of metrics, which are projectively compact of order two, this boundary structure is always non--degenerate. We also prove that in this case the metric is necessarily asymptotically Einstein, in a natural sense. Finally, a non--degenerate boundary geometry gives rise to a (conformal) standard tractor bundle endowed with a canonical linear connection, and we explicitly describe these in terms of the projective data of the interior geometry.

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