Some remarks on the converse of Weyl's conformal theorem

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2009.08.002MaRDI QIDQ1048993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. S. Hall

Publication date 8 January 2010

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2009.08.002

zbMATH Keywords

conformal pseudo-Riemannian metricsLorentz metricsRiemannian metricsWeyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Review text

One of Weyl's classical theorems states that a certain tensor, the Weyl tensor, is a conformal invariant. This paper explores the following converse question: If \(g\) and \(g'\) are smooth pseudo-Riemannian metrics on a manifold \(M\) of dimension \(n\geq 4\) whose Weyl tensors are equal to \(M\) and nonzero over some open dense subset of \(M\), are \(g\) and \(g'\) conformally related? The author proves this statement for Riemannian metrics \(g\) (hence \(g'\) will be Riemannian, too) and finds counterexamples in the Lorentz case. However, the converse statement is also proved in the Lorentz setting if the subset of points where the associated Weyl tensor is of Petrov type \(N\) (or zero) has empty interior.

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