Projective versus metric structures

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.04.011zbMATH Open1261.53014arXiv1003.1469OpenAlexW1528481229MaRDI QIDQ764523FDOQ764523

Authors: Pawel Nurowski 

Publication date: 13 March 2012

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

Abstract: We present a number of conditions which are necessary for an n-dimensional projective structure (M,[nabla]) to include the Levi-Civita connection nabla of some metric on M. We provide an algorithm, which effectively checks if a Levi-Civita connection is in the projective class and, in the positive, which finds this connection and the metric. The article also provides a basic information on invariants of projective structures, including the treatment via Cartan's normal projective connection. In particular we show that there is a number of Fefferman-like conformal structures, defined on a subbundle of the Cartan bundle of the projective structure, which encode the projectively invariant information about (M,[nabla]).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1469

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zbMATH Keywords

Levi-Civita connectionmetric structuresprojective structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Linear and affine connections (53B05) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Projective connections (53B10)

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