Compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor

DOI10.1007/S10455-009-9173-9MaRDI QIDQ2655205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Witold Roter, Andrzej Derdzinski

Publication date 22 January 2010

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702491

zbMATH Keywords

pseudo-Riemannian manifoldsRicci tensorWeyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: It is shown that in every dimension n=3j+2, j=1,2,3,..., there exist compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor, which are Ricci-recurrent, but neither conformally flat nor locally symmetric, and represent all indefinite metric signatures. The manifolds in question are diffeomorphic to nontrivial torus bundles over the circle. They all arise from a construction that a priori yields bundles over the circle, having as the fibre either a torus, or a 2-step nilmanifold with a complete flat torsionfree connection; our argument only realizes the torus case.

Review text

The authors prove that in every dimension \(u= 3j+2\), \(j\geq 1\), there exist compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor, which are Ricci-recurrent, but neither conformally flat, nor locally symmetric, and this for all indefinite signatures. Recall that a pseudo-Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) is Ricci-recurrent if, for all tangent vector fields \(w\), the Ricci tensor Ric and its covariant derivative \(\delta_w\) Ric are linearly dependent at every point in \(M\).

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