Twisting non-shearing congruences of null geodesics, almost CR structures and Einstein metrics in even dimensions

DOI10.1007/S10231-021-01133-2zbMATH Open1491.53077arXiv2009.10935OpenAlexW3195968861MaRDI QIDQ2118034FDOQ2118034

Authors: Arman Taghavi-Chabert 

Publication date: 22 March 2022

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the geometry of a twisting non-shearing congruence of null geodesics on a conformal manifold of even dimension greater than four and Lorentzian signature. We give a necessary and sufficient condition on the Weyl tensor for the twist to induce an almost Robinson structure, that is, the screen bundle of the congruence is equipped with a bundle complex structure. In this case, the (local) leaf space of the congruence acquires a partially integrable contact almost CR structure of positive definite signature. We give further curvature conditions for the integrability of the almost Robinson structure and the almost CR structure, and for the flatness of the latter. We show that under a mild natural assumption on the Weyl tensor, any metric in the conformal class that is a solution to the Einstein field equations determines an almost CR-Einstein structure on the leaf space of the congruence. These metrics depend on three parameters, and include the Fefferman-Einstein metric and Taub-NUT-(A)dS metric in the integrable case. In the non-integrable case, we obtain new solutions to the Einstein field equations, which, we show, can be constructed from strictly almost Kaehler-Einstein manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10935

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal geometryEinstein metricsLorentzian geometry[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=almost+K%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDhler-Einstein+metrics&go=Go almost K��hler-Einstein metrics]almost CR geometryalmost Robinson structurescongruences of null geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler-Einstein manifolds (32Q20) Almost complex manifolds (32Q60) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) (G)-structures (53C10) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18)

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