Projectively flat surfaces, null parallel distributions, and conformally symmetric manifolds

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1199649875zbMATH Open1146.53014arXivmath/0604568OpenAlexW3106180872MaRDI QIDQ2482292FDOQ2482292

Witold Roter, Andrzej Derdzinski

Publication date: 16 April 2008

Published in: Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We determine the local structure of all pseudo-Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ in dimensions $nge4$ whose Weyl conformal tensor $W$ is parallel and has rank 1 when treated as an operator acting on exterior 2-forms at each point. If one fixes three discrete parameters: the dimension $nge4$, the metric signature $--\mathrm{...}++$, and a sign factor $epsilon=pm1$ accounting for semidefiniteness of $W$, then the local-isometry types of our metrics $g$ correspond bijectively to equivalence classes of surfaces $varSigma$ with equiaffine projectively flat torsionfree connections; the latter equivalence relation is provided by unimodular affine local diffeomorphisms. The surface $varSigma$ arises, locally, as the leaf space of a codimension-two parallel distribution on $M$, naturally associated with $g$. We exhibit examples in which the leaves of the distribution form a fibration with the total space $M$ and base $varSigma$, for a closed surface $varSigma$ of any prescribed diffeomorphic type. Our result also completes a local classification of pseudo-Riemannian metrics with parallel Weyl tensor that are neither conformally flat nor locally symmetric: for those among such metrics which are not Ricci-recurrent, rank $W$ = 1, and so they belong to the class mentioned above; on the other hand, the Ricci-recurrent ones have already been classified by the second author.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604568

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zbMATH Keywords

projectively flat connectionparallel Weyl tensornull parallel distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

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