On compact manifolds admitting indefinite metrics with parallel Weyl tensor

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2008.03.011zbMATH Open1154.53049arXiv0705.1106OpenAlexW2139238678MaRDI QIDQ950264FDOQ950264

Andrzej Derdzinski, Witold Roter

Publication date: 22 October 2008

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

Abstract: Compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds that have parallel Weyl tensor without being conformally flat or locally symmetric are known to exist in infinitely many dimensions greater than 4. We prove some general topological properties of such manifolds, namely, vanishing of the Euler characteristic and real Pontryagin classes, and infiniteness of the fundamental group. We also show that, in the Lorentzian case, each of them is at least 5-dimensional and admits a two-fold cover which is a bundle over the circle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1106

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian manifoldspseudo-Riemannian manifoldsconformally symmetric spacesmanifolds with parallel Weyl tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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