Conformal holonomy, symmetric spaces, and skew symmetric torsion

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2013.10.012zbMATH Open1291.53063arXiv1208.2191OpenAlexW3105128620WikidataQ115356448 ScholiaQ115356448MaRDI QIDQ2636733FDOQ2636733

Jesse Alt, Thomas Leistner, Antonio J. Di Scala

Publication date: 31 January 2014

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

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).

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

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetric spacesskew-symmetric torsionconformal holonomy[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=nearly+para-K%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDhler+structures&go=Go nearly para-K��hler structures]non-integrable geometries

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)

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