Affine connections with W=0

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2007-02-01

arxiv.org/abs/math/0702032v2

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

18 pages. Revised bibliography

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For a torsionless connection on the tangent bundle of a manifold M the Weyl curvature W is the part of the curvature in kernel of the Ricci contraction. We give a coordinate free proof of Weyl's result that the Weyl curvature vanishes if and only if the manifold is (locally) diffeomorphic to a real projective space with the connection, when transported to the projective space, in the projective class of the Levi-Civita connection of the Fubini-Study metric. Associated to a connection on an even-dimensional M is an almost complex structure on J(M) the bundle of all complex structures on the tangent spaces of M, c.f. [O'Brian-Rawnsley]. We show that this structure is a projective invariant, and when integrable can be obtained from a torsionless connection which must then have W=0. We also show that two torsionless connections define the same almost complex structure if and only if they are projectively equivalent.

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