The metric structure of compact rank-one ECS manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10455-023-09929-6MaRDI QIDQ6091095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrzej Derdzinski, Ivo Terek

Publication date 23 November 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10388

zbMATH Keywords

conformally symmetric manifoldsparallel Weyl tensorpseudo-Riemannian manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with nonzero parallel Weyl tensor which are not locally symmetric are known as ECS manifolds. Every ECS manifold carries a distinguished null parallel distribution $mathcalD$, the rank $din1,2$ of which is referred to as the rank of the manifold itself. Under a natural genericity assumption on the Weyl tensor, we fully describe the universal coverings of compact rank-one ECS manifolds. We then show that any generic compact rank-one ECS manifold must be translational, in the sense that the holonomy group of the natural flat connection induced on $mathcalD$ is either trivial or isomorphic to $mathbb{Z}_2$. We also prove that all four-dimensional rank-one ECS manifolds are noncompact, this time without assuming genericity, as it is always the case in dimension four.

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