Fefferman-Graham ambient metrics of Patterson-Walker metrics

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12136MaRDI QIDQ4637559zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Matthias Hammerl, Katja Sagerschnig, Arman Taghavi-Chabert, Vojtech Zadnik, Josef Šilhan

Publication date 24 April 2018

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06875

zbMATH Keywords

cotangent bundleRicci-flatconformal structuresFefferman-Graham ambient metricsPatterson-Walker metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

Abstract: Given an $n$-dimensional manifold $N$ with an affine connection $D$, we show that the associated Patterson-Walker metric $g$ on $T^{\ast }N$ admits a global and explicit Fefferman-Graham ambient metric. This provides a new and large class of conformal structures which are generically not conformally Einstein but for which the ambient metric exists to all orders and can be realized in a natural and explicit way. In particular, it follows that Patterson-Walker metrics have vanishing Fefferman-Graham obstruction tensors. As an application of the concrete ambient metric realization we show in addition that Patterson-Walker metrics have vanishing Q-curvature.

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