Four-dimensional metrics conformal to Kähler

DOI10.1017/S030500410999048XzbMATH Open1188.53078arXiv0901.2261MaRDI QIDQ3559980FDOQ3559980

Authors: Maciej Dunajski, Paul Tod 

Publication date: 17 May 2010

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

metrisabilityprojective structuresASD metricspara-Kähler metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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