On the existence of infinite series of exotic holonomies

DOI10.1007/S002220050104MaRDI QIDQ5961442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Quo-Shin Chi, Sergei Merkulov, Lorenz Schwachhöfer

Publication date 15 July 1997

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9508014

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant deformationsexotic holonomyholonomyPoisson structurestorsion-free affine connectionstwistor techniques

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: In 1955, Berger cite{Ber} gave a list of irreducible reductive representations which can occur as the holonomy of a torsion-free affine connection. This list was stated to be complete up to possibly a finite number of missing entries. In this paper, we show that there is, in fact, an infinite family of representations which are missing from this list, thereby showing the incompleteness of Berger's classification. Moreover, we develop a method to construct torsion-free connections with prescribed holonomy, and use it to give a complete description of the torsion-free affine connections with these new holonomies. We also deduce some striking facts about their global behaviour.

Review text

In 1955, \textit{M. Berger} [Bull. Soc. Math. France 83, 279-330 (1955; Zbl 0068.36002)] gave a list of irreducible reductive representations which can occur as the holonomy of a torsion-free affine connection. While this list was stated to be complete in the case of metric connections, the situation in the general case remained unclear. The representations which are missing from this list are called exotic. In this paper, we use twistor techniques to detect an infinite series of candidates for exotic holonomies. We then develop a general method for constructing torsion-free affine connections with prescribed holonomy which is based on equivariant deformations of a certain class of linear Poisson structures. When applied to the new series, this method yields an exhaustive description of all torsion-free connections with these holonomies, and hence not only proves the existence of such connections, but also allows us to deduce some striking facts about their local and global behaviour.

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