Harmonic morphisms between Weyl spaces and twistorial maps. II

Abstract: We define, on smooth manifolds, the notions of almost twistorial structure and twistorial map, thus providing a unified framework for all known examples of twistor spaces. The condition of being harmonic morphisms naturally appears among the geometric properties of submersive twistorial maps between low-dimensional Weyl spaces endowed with a nonintegrable almost twistorial structure due to Eells and Salamon. This leads to the twistorial characterisation of harmonic morphisms between Weyl spaces of dimensions four and three. Also, we give a thorough description of the twistorial maps with one-dimensional fibres from four-dimensional Weyl spaces endowed with the almost twistorial structure of Eells and Salamon.

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The authors define an almost twistorial structure on a smooth manifold to be a locally trivial fibre space over that manifold, equipped with a complex distribution which induces almost complex structures on each fibre. This notion provides a unified framework for all known examples of twistor spaces. In the smooth category, a twistor on a manifold \(M\) is a pair consisting of an immersed submanifold and a linear CR-structure on its normal bundle. The paper contains twistorial characterisations of harmonic morphisms between Weyl spaces of dimensions \(4\) and \(3\). Moreover, the authors describe the twistorial maps with \(1\)-dimensional fibres from \(4 \)-dimensional Weyl spaces endowed with the almost twistorial structure of [\textit{J. Eells} and \textit{S. Salamon}, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Cl. Sci., IV. Ser. 12, 589--640 (1985; Zbl 0627.58019)]. [For Part I, cf. \textit{E. Loubeau} and \textit{R. Pantile}, Commun. Anal. Geom. 14, No. 5, 847--881 (2006; Zbl 1127.58010).]

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