Conformal holonomy, symmetric spaces, and skew symmetric torsion

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2013.10.012MaRDI QIDQ2636733zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jesse Alt, Antonio J. Di Scala, Thomas Leistner

Publication date 31 January 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2191

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric spacesskew-symmetric torsionconformal holonomynon-integrable geometriesnearly para-Kähler structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We consider the question: can the isotropy representation of an irreducible pseudo-Riemannian symmetric space be realized as a conformal holonomy group? Using recent results of Cap, Gover and Hammerl, we study the representations of SO(2,1), PSU(2,1) and PSp(2,1) as isotropy groups of irreducible symmetric spaces of signature (3,2), (4,4) and (6,8), respectively, describing the geometry induced by a conformal holonomy reduction to the corresponding subgroups. In the case of SO(2,1) we show that conformal manifolds with such a holonomy reduction are always locally conformally flat and hence this group cannot be a conformal holonomy group. This result completes the classification of irreducible conformal holonomy groups in Lorentzian signature. In the case of PSU(2,1), we show that conformal manifolds of signature (3,3) with this holonomy reduction carry, on an open dense subset, a canonical nearly para-Kaehler metric with positive Einstein constant. For PSp(2,1) we also show that there is an open dense subset endowed with a canonical Einstein metric in the conformal class. As a result, after restricting to an open dense subset the conformal holonomy must be a proper subgroup of PSU(2,1) or of PSp(2,1), respectively. Finally, using a recent result of Graham and Willse we prove the following general non-existence result: for a real-analytic, odd-dimensional conformal manifold, the conformal holonomy group can never be given by the isotropy representation of an irreducible pseudo-Riemannian symmetric space unless the isotropy is SO(p+1,q+1).

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