A conformally invariant differential operator on Weyl tensor densities

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(01)00086-9MaRDI QIDQ1603282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rod Gover, Thomas Branson

Publication date 11 July 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0109210

zbMATH Keywords

anti-self-dual Weyl tensor densitieschirality switchconformal four-manifoldsDirac operatorinvariant differential operatorsWeyl tensor densities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

Abstract: We derive a tensorial formula for a fourth-order conformally invariant differential operator on conformal 4-manifolds. This operator is applied to algebraic Weyl tensor densities of a certain conformal weight, and takes its values in algebraic Weyl tensor densities of another weight. For oriented manifolds, this operator reverses duality: For example in the Riemannian case, it takes self-dual to anti-self-dual tensors and vice versa. We also examine the place that this operator occupies in known results on the classification of conformally invariant operators, and we examine some related operators.

Review text

The authors study conformally invariant linear differential operators of order 4 on conformal four-manifolds and derive a tensorial formula for this kind of operator. Such operator is applied to algebraic Weyl tensor densities of a certain conformal weight, and takes its values in algebraic Weyl tensor densities of another weight. Under this operator, self-dual and anti-self-dual Weyl tensor densities are interchanged, in a way reminiscent of the chirality switch effected by the Dirac operator.

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