The ambient obstruction tensor and conformal holonomy

DOI10.2140/PJM.2017.290.403zbMATH Open1378.53081arXiv1511.07214OpenAlexW2177430838MaRDI QIDQ2398628FDOQ2398628

Authors: Thomas Leistner, Andree Lischewski 

Publication date: 18 August 2017

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a conformal manifold, we describe a new relation between the ambient obstruction tensor of Fefferman and Graham and the holonomy of the normal conformal Cartan connection. This relation allows us to prove several results on the vanishing and the rank of the obstruction tensor, for example for conformal structures admitting twistor spinors or normal conformal Killing forms. As our main tool we introduce the notion of a conformal holonomy distribution and show that its integrability is closely related to the exceptional conformal structures in dimensions five and six that were found by Nurowski and Bryant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07214

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zbMATH Keywords

Fefferman-Graham ambient metricconformal holonomyexceptional conformal structuresnormal conformal Killing formsobstruction tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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