Conformal holonomy of C-spaces, Ricci-flat, and Lorentzian manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2006.04.008MaRDI QIDQ2432697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas Leistner

Publication date 25 October 2006

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501239

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathbb{C}\)-spacesconformal holonomyEinstein metricholonomy groupsLorentzian manifoldsplane wavesRicci tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: The main result of this paper is that a Lorentzian manifold is locally conformally equivalent to a manifold with recurrent lightlike vector field and totally isotropic Ricci tensor if and only if its conformal tractor holonomy admits a 2-dimensional totally isotropic invariant subspace. Furthermore, for semi-Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary signature we prove that the conformal holonomy algebra of a $C$-space is a Berger algebra. For Ricci-flat spaces we show how the conformal holonomy can be obtained by the holonomy of the ambient metric and get results for Riemannian manifolds and plane waves.

Review text

The main results of the present paper are the following two theorems: Theorem 1. Let \((M,[h])\) be a conformal manifold of Lorentzian signature, \(T\) its conformal tractor bundle and \(D\) the conformal tractor connection. The holonomy group of \(D\) admits a 2-dimensional totally isotropic invariant subspace if and only if \((M,h)\) is locally conformally equivalent to a Lorentzian manifold with recurrent light-like vector field and totally isotropic Ricci tensor. Theorem 2. Let \((M,c)\) be a conformal manifold of arbitrary signature. If the conformal class \(c\) contains the metric of a \(\mathbb{C}\)-space, then its conformal holonomy algebra is a Berger algebra. For Ricci-flat spaces it is shown how the conformal holonomy can be obtained by the holonomy of the ambient metric. Some results are obtained for Riemannian manifolds and plane waves. In particular, it is proved that a Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) is conformally Ricci-flat with indecomposable ambient metric if and only if its conformal holonomy is equal to the Lorentzian holonomy \(\text{Hol}_p(M,g)\times \mathbb{R}^n\) of a Brinkmann wave, where \(\text{Hol}_p(M,g)\) is a product of \(\text{SO}(n)\), \(\text{SU}(m)\), \(\text{Spin}(7)\) or \(G_2\).

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