Metrisability of two-dimensional projective structures

DOI10.4310/JDG/1264601033zbMATH Open1196.53014arXiv0801.0300OpenAlexW2964079230WikidataQ115171484 ScholiaQ115171484MaRDI QIDQ2269709FDOQ2269709

Authors: Maciej Dunajski, M. Eastwood, Robert L. Bryant 

Publication date: 17 March 2010

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We carry out the programme of R. Liouville cite{Liouville} to construct an explicit local obstruction to the existence of a Levi--Civita connection within a given projective structure $[Gamma]$ on a surface. The obstruction is of order 5 in the components of a connection in a projective class. It can be expressed as a point invariant for a second order ODE whose integral curves are the geodesics of $[Gamma]$ or as a weighted scalar projective invariant of the projective class. If the obstruction vanishes we find the sufficient conditions for the existence of a metric in the real analytic case. In the generic case they are expressed by the vanishing of two invariants of order 6 in the connection. In degenerate cases the sufficient obstruction is of order at most 8.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0300

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zbMATH Keywords

projective structuremetrisability of projective structureoverdetermined system of ODE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Projective connections (53B10)

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