Modified conformal extensions

DOI10.1007/S10455-023-09918-9MaRDI QIDQ6056541zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Hammerl, Katja Sagerschnig, Josef Šilhan, Vojtech Zadnik

Publication date 2 October 2023

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04238

zbMATH Keywords

conformal Killing fieldsconformal structuresEinstein metricsFefferman-Graham ambient metricsPatterson-Walker metricprojective manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective differential geometry (53A20) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We present a geometric construction and characterization of $2n$-dimensional split-signature conformal structures endowed with a twistor spinor with integrable kernel. The construction is regarded as a modification of the conformal Patterson--Walker metric construction for $n$-dimensional projective manifolds. The characterization is presented in terms of the twistor spinor and an integrability condition on the conformal Weyl curvature. We further derive complete description of Einstein metrics and infinitesimal conformal symmetries in terms of suitable projective data. Finally, we obtain an explicit geometrically constructed Fefferman--Graham ambient metric and show vanishing of $Q$-curvature.

Review text

Lorentzian manifolds which admit null parallel distributions are called Walker manifolds, and in the case where the distributions are spanned by a null vector they are called strict Walker manifolds. The authors give a geometric construction of \(2n\)-dimensional split-signature conformal structures endowed with a twistor spinor with integrable kernel by a modification of the conformal Patterson-Walker metric construction for projective \(n\)-manifolds. They also present a characterization of these structures. In particular, they give a necessary and sufficient condition for a conformal structure of split signature to be a modified conformal extension of a projective structure. They derive a complete description of Einstein metrics and infinitesimal conformal symmetries in terms of suitable projective data. They obtain an explicit geometrically constructed Fefferman-Graham ambient metric and show the vanishing of its Q-curvature.

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