On transversally symmetric pseudo-Einstein and Fefferman-Einstein spaces

DOI10.1007/S00209-007-0121-8MaRDI QIDQ2385019zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felipe Leitner

Publication date 11 October 2007

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502287

zbMATH Keywords

conformally Einstein spacesFefferman construction and metricpseudo-Einstein spacestransverse symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We describe and construct here pseudo-Hermitian structures $heta$ without torsion (i.e. with transversal symmetry) whose Webster-Ricci curvature tensor is a constant multiple of the exterior differential $dheta$. We call these structures pseudo-Hermitian Einstein and our result states that they all can be derived locally from K{"a}hler-Einstein metrics. Moreover, we discuss the corresponding Fefferman metrics of the pseudo-Hermitian Einstein structures. These Fefferman metrics are never Einstein, but they are locally always conformally Einstein.

Review text

Let \((M,HM,J)\) be a Levi-nondegenerate CR manifold of hypersurface type, with a pseudo-Hermitian structure, i.e., a nowhere vanishing \(1\)-form \(\theta\) with \(\theta| _{HM}=0\). Denote by \(T\) the Reeb vector field, by \(g_\theta\) the Webster metric, by \(\nabla\) the Tanaka-Webster connection on \(M\), by \(\mathrm{Tor}\) its torsion and by \(\mathrm{Ric}\) the Webster-Ricci curvature. Then \(M\) is called transversally symmetric (TS) if the local flow generated by \(T\) acts by CR automorphisms, or equivalently if \(T\) is a Killing vector field for \(g_\theta\). If furthermore \(\mathrm{Ric}\) is a constant multiple of \(d\theta\), then \(M\) is called a TS-pseudo-Einstein-space. If \(M\) is TS, locally the quotient under the action of \(T\) induces a pseudo-Riemannian CR submersion \(M\rightarrow N\) onto a pseudo-Kähler manifold \((N,h)\) and the Webster-Ricci curvature of \(M\) is essentially the same as that of \(N\). It follows that if \(M\) is TS-pseudo-Einstein, then \(N\) is Káhler-Einstein. Vice versa, given a Kähler-Einstein manifold \(N\), the space \(M\) of unit vectors in the anticanonical bundle of \(N\) is in a natural way a TS-pseudo-Einstein manifold, and all TS-pseudo-Einstein manifolds are locally isomorphic to one of this form. Furthermore, the Fefferman space \(F\) built over \(M\) is never Einstein, but if \(M\) is TS-pseudo-Einstein, then \(F\) is locally conformally Einstein.

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