Self-dual conformal gravity

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2046-5zbMATH Open1295.53080arXiv1304.7772OpenAlexW2077659646MaRDI QIDQ398749FDOQ398749

Authors: Maciej Dunajski, Paul Tod 

Publication date: 15 August 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We find necessary and sufficient conditions for a Riemannian four-dimensional manifold $(M,g)$ with anti-self-dual Weyl tensor to be locally conformal to a Ricci--flat manifold. These conditions are expressed as the vanishing of scalar and tensor conformal invariants. The invariants obstruct the existence of parallel sections of a certain connection on a complex rank-four vector bundle over $M$. They provide a natural generalisation of the Bach tensor which vanishes identically for anti-self-dual conformal structures. We use the obstructions to demonstrate that LeBrun's anti-self-dual metrics on connected sums of $C{P}^2$s are not conformally Ricci-flat on any open set. We analyze both Riemannian and neutral signature metrics. In the latter case we find all anti-self-dual metrics with a parallel real spinor which are locally conformal to Einstein metrics with non-zero cosmological constant. These metrics admit a hyper-surface orthogonal null Killing vector and thus give rise to projective structures on the space of $$-surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7772

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zbMATH Keywords

connectionBach tensor\(\beta\)-surfacesconformally Ricci-flatparallel sectionsprojective structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) General relativity (83C99)

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