Flat metrics with a prescribed derived coframing

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2020.004MaRDI QIDQ2297938zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeanne N. Clelland, Robert L. Bryant

Publication date 20 February 2020

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01041

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zbMATH Keywords

exterior differential systemsmetrization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Other connections (53B15) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

Abstract: The following problem is addressed: A $3$-manifold $M$ is endowed with a triple $$ of closed $2$-forms. One wants to construct a coframing $$ of $M$ such that, first, $mdomeg{a}^i=Omeg{a}^i$ for $i=1,2,3$, and, second, the Riemannian metric $$ be flat. We show that, in the 'nonsingular case', i.e., when the three $2$-forms $Omeg{a}_p^i$ span at least a $2$-dimensional subspace of $Lambd{a}^2(T_p^{\ast }M)$ and are real-analytic in some $p$-centered coordinates, this problem is always solvable on a neighborhood of $pinM$, with the general solution $omega$ depending on three arbitrary functions of two variables. Moreover, the characteristic variety of the generic solution $omega$ can be taken to be a nonsingular cubic. Some singular situations are considered as well. In particular, we show that the problem is solvable locally when $Omeg{a}^1$, $Omeg{a}^2$, $Omeg{a}^3$ are scalar multiples of a single 2-form that do not vanish simultaneously and satisfy a nondegeneracy condition. We also show by example that solutions may fail to exist when these conditions are not satisfied.

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