Three-dimensional Cauchy–Riemann structures and second-order ordinary differential equations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/23/004zbMATH Open1051.32019arXivmath/0306331OpenAlexW2506973712MaRDI QIDQ4464366FDOQ4464366

Pawel Nurowski, George Sparling

Publication date: 27 May 2004

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

Abstract: The equivalence problem for second order ODEs given modulo point transformations is solved in full analogy with the equivalence problem of nondegenerate 3-dimensional CR structures. This approach enables an analog of the Feffereman metrics to be defined. The conformal class of these (split signature) metrics is well defined by each point equivalence class of second order ODEs. Its conformal curvature is interpreted in terms of the basic point invariants of the corresponding class of ODEs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306331

zbMATH Keywords

second-order ordinary differential equationRobinson manifoldsCauchy-Riemann structuresFefferman metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations (34C14) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05)

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