The topology of compact rank-one ECS manifolds

DOI10.1017/S0013091523000408zbMATH Open1522.53046arXiv2210.09195OpenAlexW4385954144MaRDI QIDQ6096876FDOQ6096876

Authors: Andrzej Derdzinski, Ivo Terek 

Publication date: 15 September 2023

Published in: Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor that are not conformally flat or locally symmetric, also known as ECS manifolds, have a natural local invariant, the rank, which equals 1 or 2, and is the dimension of a certain distinguished null parallel distribution $,mathcalD$. All known examples of compact ECS manifolds are of rank one and have dimensions greater than 4. We prove that a compact rank-one ECS manifold, if not locally homogeneous, replaced when necessary by a two-fold isometric covering, must be a bundle over the circle with leaves of $,mathcal{D}^{p}erp$ serving as the fibres. The same conclusion holds in the locally-homogeneous case if one assumes that $,mathcal{D}^{p}erp$ has at least one compact leaf. We also show that in the pseudo-Riemannian universal covering space of any compact rank-one ECS manifold the leaves of $,mathcal{D}^{p}erp$ are the factor manifolds of a global product decomposition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09195

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zbMATH Keywords

conformally symmetric manifoldparallel Weyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

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