Local obstructions to a conformally invariant equation on Möbius surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2013.10.014MaRDI QIDQ2636737zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Matthew Randall

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/1211.2516

zbMATH Keywords

conformally invariant equationMöbius structureMöbius surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10)

Abstract: On a M"obius surface, as defined by D. Calderbank, we study a variant of the Einstein-Weyl (EW) equation which we call scalar-flat M"obius EW (sf-MEW). This is a conformally invariant, finite type, overdetermined system of semi-linear partial differential equations. We derive local algebraic constraints for this equation to admit a solution and give local obstructions. In the generic case when a certain invariant of the M"obius structure given by a symmetric tensor $M_{ab}$ is non-zero, the obstructions are given by resultants of 3 polynomial equations whose coefficients are conformal invariants of the M"obius structure. The vanishing of the resultants is a necessary condition for there to be solutions to sf-MEW.

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