Projective BGG equations, algebraic sets, and compactifications of Einstein geometries

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDS002MaRDI QIDQ3165355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Andreas Cap, Rod Gover, Matthias Hammerl

Publication date 26 October 2012

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2246

zbMATH Keywords

projective manifoldsBGG equationsEinstein-Poincaré manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective analytic geometry (51N15) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Projective connections (53B10) Projective differential geometry (53A20) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10)

Abstract: For curved projective manifolds we introduce a notion of a normal tractor frame field, based around any point. This leads to canonical systems of (redundant) coordinates that generalise the usual homogeneous coordinates on projective space. These give preferred local maps to the model projective space that encode geometric contact with the model to a level that is optimal, in a suitable sense. In terms of the trivialisations arising from the special frames, normal solutions of classes of natural linear PDE (so-called first BGG equations) are shown to be necessarily polynomial in the generalised homogeneous coordinates; the polynomial system is the pull back of a polynomial system that solves the corresponding problem on the model. Thus questions concerning the zero locus of solutions, as well as related finer geometric and smooth data, are reduced to a study of the corresponding polynomial systems and algebraic sets. We show that a normal solution determines a canonical manifold stratification that reflects an orbit decomposition of the model. Applications include the construction of structures that are analogues of Poincare-Einstein manifolds.

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