Bi-conformal vector fields and the local geometric characterization of conformally separable (double-twisted) pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

Details Bi-conformal vector fields and the local geometric characterization of conformally separable (double-twisted) pseudo-Riemannian manifolds Bi-conformal vector fields and the local geometric characterization of conformally separable (double-twisted) pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

2005-04-08

arxiv.org/abs/math/0504162v2

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

32 pages,no figures. Final version. To appear in Journal of Geometry and Physics

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This is the first of two companion papers in which a thorough study of the normal form and the first integrability conditions arising from {\em bi-conformal vector fields} is presented. These new symmetry transformations were introduced in {\em Class. Quantum Grav.} \textbf{21}, 2153-2177 and some of their basic properties were addressed there. In our calculations a new affine connection ({\em bi-conformal connection}) arises quite naturally and this connection enables us to find a local characterization of {\em conformally separable} pseudo-Riemannian manifolds (also called double twisted products) in terms of the vanishing of a rank three tensor $T_{abc}$. Similar local characterizations are found for the most important particular cases such as (double) warped products, twisted products and conformally reducible spaces (this classification will be enlarged in the forthcoming second paper).We speculate with potential applications of the bi-conformal connection to the invariant characterization of other types of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds in which the metric tensor has a part conformal to a metric of lesser rank.

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