Twistor bundles, Einstein equations and real structures

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/1A/021MaRDI QIDQ4332353zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Pawel Nurowski

Publication date 20 April 1997

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9610017

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein equationsWeyl geometryself-duality equationstwistor bundleEinstein-Weyl equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We consider sphere bundles P and P' of totally null planes of maximal dimension and opposite self-duality over a 4-dimensional manifold equipped with a Weyl or Riemannian geometry. The fibre product PP' of P and P' is found to be appropriate for the encoding of both the selfdual and the Einstein-Weyl equations for the 4-metric. This encoding is realized in terms of the properties of certain well defined geometrical objects on PP'. The formulation is suitable for both complex- and real-valued metrics. It unifies results for all three possible real signatures. In the purely Riemannian positive definite case it implies the existence of a natural almost hermitian structure on PP' whose integrability conditions correspond to the self-dual Einstein equations of the 4-metric. All Einstein equations for the 4-metric are also encoded in the properties of this almost hermitian structure on PP'.

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