Ricci-flat holonomy: a classification

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2006.12.003MaRDI QIDQ886336zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stuart Armstrong

Publication date 26 June 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602619

zbMATH Keywords

holonomy groupsRicci-flat connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) (G)-structures (53C10) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: The reductive holonomy algebras for a torsion-free affine connection are analysed, with the goal of establishing which ones can correspond to a Ricci-flat connection with the same properties. Various families of holonomies are eliminated through different algebraic means, and examples are constructed (in this paper and in `Projective Geometry II: Holonomy Classification', by the same author) in the remaining cases, thus solving this problem completely, for reductive holonomy.

Review text

Irreducible holonomy algebras \(\mathfrak{h}\) of torsion-free connections were classified by \textit{S. Merkulov} and \textit{L. Schwachhöfer} [Ann. Math. (2) 150, No. 1, 77--149 (1999); addendum ibid. 150, No. 3, 1177--1179 (1999; Zbl 0992.53038)]. Given such an algebra \(\mathfrak{h}\), one can distinguish three cases: (i) Any torsion-free connection with holonomy \(\mathfrak{h}\) is Ricci-flat. (ii) Any torsion-free connection with holonomy \(\mathfrak{h}\) has non-zero Ricci curvature. (iii) There exist torsion-free connections with holonomy \(\mathfrak{h}\) which are Ricci-flat and others which are not Ricci-flat. The author classifies the irreducible holonomy algebras according to these cases. This is part of his PhD thesis at Oxford University.

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