Projectively flat surfaces, null parallel distributions, and conformally symmetric manifolds

Details Projectively flat surfaces, null parallel distributions, and conformally symmetric manifolds Projectively flat surfaces, null parallel distributions, and conformally symmetric manifolds

2006-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/math/0604568v1

Tohoku Mathematical Journal 59 (2007), no. 4, 565-602

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

39 pages

Scientific paper

10.2748/tmj/1199649875

We determine the local structure of all pseudo-Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ in dimensions $n\ge4$ whose Weyl conformal tensor $W$ is parallel and has rank 1 when treated as an operator acting on exterior 2-forms at each point. If one fixes three discrete parameters: the dimension $n\ge4$, the metric signature $--...++$, and a sign factor $\epsilon=\pm1$ accounting for semidefiniteness of $W$, then the local-isometry types of our metrics $g$ correspond bijectively to equivalence classes of surfaces $\varSigma$ with equiaffine projectively flat torsionfree connections; the latter equivalence relation is provided by unimodular affine local diffeomorphisms. The surface $\varSigma$ arises, locally, as the leaf space of a codimension-two parallel distribution on $M$, naturally associated with $g$. We exhibit examples in which the leaves of the distribution form a fibration with the total space $M$ and base $\varSigma$, for a closed surface $\varSigma$ of any prescribed diffeomorphic type. Our result also completes a local classification of pseudo-Riemannian metrics with parallel Weyl tensor that are neither conformally flat nor locally symmetric: for those among such metrics which are not Ricci-recurrent, rank $W$ = 1, and so they belong to the class mentioned above; on the other hand, the Ricci-recurrent ones have already been classified by the second author.

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