Four-dimensional metrics conformal to Kähler

DOI10.1017/S030500410999048XMaRDI QIDQ3559980zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Maciej Dunajski, Paul Tod

Publication date 17 May 2010

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2261

zbMATH Keywords

metrisabilityprojective structuresASD metricspara-Kähler metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: We derive some necessary conditions on a Riemannian metric $(M,g)$ in four dimensions for it to be locally conformal to K"ahler. If the conformal curvature is non anti--self--dual, the self--dual Weyl spinor must be of algebraic type $D$ and satisfy a simple first order conformally invariant condition which is necessary and sufficient for the existence of a K"ahler metric in the conformal class. In the anti--self--dual case we establish a one to one correspondence between K"ahler metrics in the conformal class and non--zero parallel sections of a certain connection on a natural rank ten vector bundle over $M$. We use this characterisation to provide examples of ASD metrics which are not conformal to K"ahler. We establish a link between the `conformal to K"ahler condition' in dimension four and the metrisability of projective structures in dimension two. A projective structure on a surface $U$ is metrisable if and only if the induced (2, 2) conformal structure on $M=TU$ admits a K"ahler metric or a para-K"ahler metric.

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