Affine connections on involutive G-structures

Publication date 4 February 1997

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9509001

holonomy group complex manifolds twistor methods holomorphic affine connection

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Connections (general theory) (53C05) (G)-structures (53C10) Global submanifolds (53C40) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: This paper is a review of the twistor theory of irreducible G-structures and affine connections. Long ago, Berger presented a very restricted list of possible irreducibly acting holonomies of torsion-free affine connections. His list was complete in the part of metric connections, while the situation with holonomies of non-metric torsion-free affine connections was and remains rather unclear. One of the results discussed in this review asserts that any torsion-free holomorphic affine connection with irreducibly acting holonomy group can, in principle, be constructed by twistor methods. Another result reveals a new natural subclass of affine connections with "very little torsion" which shares with the class of torsion-free affine connections two basic properties --- the list of irreducibly acting holonomy groups of affine connections in this subclass is very restricted and the links with the twistor theory are again very strong.

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