Infinitesimal automorphisms and deformations of parabolic geometries

DOI10.4171/JEMS/116zbMATH Open1161.32020arXivmath/0508535MaRDI QIDQ2425586FDOQ2425586

Andreas Cap

Publication date: 6 May 2008

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that infinitesimal automorphisms and infinitesimal deformations of parabolic geometries can be nicely described in terms of the twisted de-Rham sequence associated to a certain linear connection on the adjoint tractor bundle. For regular normal geometries, this description can be related to the underlying geometric structure using the machinery of BGG sequences. In the locally flat case, this leads to a deformation complex, which generalizes the is well know complex for locally conformally flat manifolds. Recently, a theory of subcomplexes in BGG sequences has been developed. This applies to certain types of torsion free parabolic geometries including, quaternionic structures, quaternionic contact structures and CR structures. We show that for these structures one of the subcomplexes in the adjoint BGG sequence leads (even in the curved case) to a complex governing deformations in the subcategory of torsion free geometries. For quaternionic structures, this deformation complex is elliptic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508535

zbMATH Keywords

infinitesimal deformationCR structureinfinitesimal automorphismparabolic geometryBGG sequencequaternionic structuredeformation complexquaternionic contact structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Deformations of general structures on manifolds (58H15) CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Other special differential geometries (53A40) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Differential complexes (58J10) Other connections (53B15)

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