Algebraically special, real alpha-geometries

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.06.002MaRDI QIDQ720664zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter R. Law, Yasuo Matsushita

Publication date 11 October 2011

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2082

zbMATH Keywords

neutral geometryreal alpha-geometriesspinor descriptionWalker geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We exploit the spinor description of four-dimensional Walker geometry, and conformal rescalings of such, to describe the local geometry of four-dimensional neutral geometries with algebraically degenerate self-dual Weyl curvature and an integrable distribution of alpha-planes (algebraically special real alpha-geometry). In particular, we determine the behaviour of (four-dimensional neutral) Walker geometry under conformal rescalings and provide a derivation of the hyperheavenly equation from conformal rescaling formulae.

Review text

The authors continue their study of the algebraic classification of the Weyl spinor [the first author, J. Geom. Phys. 56, No.~10, 2093--2108 (2006; Zbl 1110.53016); the authors, Commun. Math. Phys. 282, No.~3, 577--623 (2008; Zbl 1148.53035)]. Their considerations are based on the notion of a neutral geometry based on a four-dimensional manifold admitting a metric tensor of neutral signature, and they employ a spinor description of those neutral geometries which admit a parallel distribution of totally null planes. They call such geometries Walker geometries since their properties were first studied by A. G. Walker in 1950. The contents include: Introduction; Conformal rescalings of the metric; Algebraically special real alpha-geometries; Appendix.

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