Conformal structures associated to generic rank 2 distributions on 5-manifolds -- characterization and Killing-field decomposition

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.081MaRDI QIDQ970265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Hammerl, Katja Sagerschnig

Publication date 17 May 2010

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0483, https://eudml.org/doc/227460, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2009/081/index.html

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal geometrygeneric distributionstractor calculusFefferman constructionalmost Einstein scalesconformal Killing fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Other connections (53B15) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10)

Abstract: Given a maximally non-integrable 2-distribution $mathcalD$ on a 5-manifold $M$, it was discovered by P. Nurowski that one can naturally associate a conformal structure $[g{]}_{mathcalD}$ of signature (2,3) on $M$. We show that those conformal structures $[g{]}_{mathcalD}$ which come about by this construction are characterized by the existence of a normal conformal Killing 2-form which is locally decomposable and satisfies a genericity condition. We further show that every conformal Killing field of $[g{]}_{mathcalD}$ can be decomposed into a symmetry of $mathcalD$ and an almost Einstein scale of $[g{]}_{mathcalD}$.

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