Detecting Einstein geodesics: Einstein metrics in projective and conformal geometry

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2013.10.011zbMATH Open1372.53017arXiv1212.6286OpenAlexW2962783704WikidataQ115356450 ScholiaQ115356450MaRDI QIDQ2636734FDOQ2636734

Heather Macbeth, Rod Gover

Publication date: 31 January 2014

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

Abstract: Here we treat the problem: given a torsion-free connection do its geodesics, as unparametrised curves, coincide with the geodesics of an Einstein metric? We find projective invariants such that the vanishing of these is necessary for the existence of such a metric, and in generic settings the vanishing of these is also sufficient. We also obtain results for the problem of metrisability (without the Einstein condition): We show that the odd Chern type invariants of an affine connection are projective invariants that obstruct the existence of a projectively related Levi-Civita connection. In addition we discuss a concrete link between projective and conformal geometry and the application of this to the projective-Einstein problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6286

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein metricsconformal differential geometryprojective differential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Einstein equations (35Q76) Projective connections (53B10)

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