Light cone and Weyl compatibility of conformal and projective structures
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conformal structureEPS (Ehlers, Pirani, Schild) approachfoundations of gravityprojective structureWeyl geometric compatibility
Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)
Abstract: In the literature different concepts of compatibility between a projective structure and a conformal structure on a differentiable manifold are used. In particular compatibility in the sense of Weyl geometry is slightly more general than compatibility in the Riemannian sense. An often cited paper [Ehlers-Pirani-Schild:1972] introduces still another criterion which is natural from the physical point of view: every light like geodesics of of the conformal structure is a geodesics of the projective structure. Their claim that this type of compatibility is sufficient for introducing a Weylian metric has recently been questioned in [Trautman:2012] and [Scholz:2019]. Here it is proved that the conjecture of EPS is correct.
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