Einstein metrics in projective geometry

DOI10.1007/S10711-013-9828-3MaRDI QIDQ2439348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rod Gover, Andreas Cap, Heather Macbeth

Publication date 14 March 2014

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0128

zbMATH Keywords

conformal differential geometryEinstein metricsprojective differential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein equations (35Q76) Projective differential geometry (53A20) Projective connections (53B10) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: It is well known that pseudo-Riemannian metrics in the projective class of a given torsion free affine connection can be obtained from (and are equivalent to) the solutions of a certain overdetermined projectively invariant differential equation. This equation is a special case of a so-called first BGG equation. The general theory of such equations singles out a subclass of so-called normal solutions. We prove that non-degerate normal solutions are equivalent to pseudo-Riemannian Einstein metrics in the projective class and observe that this connects to natural projective extensions of the Einstein condition.

Review text

It is well known that pseudo-Riemannian metrics in the projective class of a given torsion free affine connection can be obtained from (and are equivalent to) the solutions of certain over determined projectively invariant differential equation, which is a special case of a so-called Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand (BGG) equation. The aim of the paper is to show that non-degenerate normal solutions are equivalent to pseudo-Riemannian Einstein metrics in the projective class and observe that this connects to natural projective extensions of the Einstein condition. In particular, the authors prove that a non-degenerate solution of the metricity equation \(D\sigma=0\) (where \(D\) is a projectively invariant differential operator in question) is normal if and only if the corresponding metrics \(g^\sigma\) is an Einstein metric.

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