Rank-one ECS manifolds of dilational type

DOI10.4171/PM/2110arXiv2301.09558OpenAlexW4387868818MaRDI QIDQ6203850FDOQ6203850

Authors: Andrzej Derdzinski, Ivo Terek 

Publication date: 8 April 2024

Published in: Portugaliae Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study ECS manifolds, that is, pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor which are neither conformally flat nor locally symmetric. Every ECS manifold has rank 1 or 2, the rank being the dimension of a distinguished null parallel distribution discovered by Olszak, and a rank-one ECS manifold may be called translational or dilational, depending on whether the holonomy group of a natural flat connection in the Olszak distribution is finite or infinite. Some such manifolds are in a natural sense generic, which refers to the algebraic structure of the Weyl tensor. Known examples of compact ECS manifolds, in every dimension greater than 4, are all of rank 1 and translational, some of them generic, none of them locally homogeneous. As we show, generic compact rank-one ECS manifolds must be translational or locally homogeneous, provided that they arise as isometric quotients of a specific class of explicitly constructed "model" manifolds. This result is relevant since the clause starting with "provided that" may be dropped: according to a theorem which we prove in a forthcoming paper, the models just mentioned include the isometry types of the pseudo-Riemannian universal coverings of all generic compact rank-one ECS manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09558

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zbMATH Keywords

conformally symmetric manifoldparallel Weyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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