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Classification of closed conformally flat Lorentzian manifolds with unipotent holonomy

Differential Geometry 2024-05-15 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We classify closed, conformally flat Lorentzian manifolds of dimension n3n \geq 3 with unipotent holonomy in PO(2,n). They are all Kleinian and fall into four different geometric types according to the intersection of the image of the developing map with a holonomy-invariant isotropic flag. They are homeomorphic to Sn1×S1S^{n-1} \times S^1 or a nilmanifold of degree at most three, up to a finite cover. We classify those admitting an essential conformal flow; these fall into two geometric types, both homeomorphic to Sn1×S1S^{n-1} \times S^1 up to finite cover.

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@article{arxiv.2405.08410,
  title  = {Classification of closed conformally flat Lorentzian manifolds with unipotent holonomy},
  author = {Rachel Lee and Karin Melnick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08410},
  year   = {2024}
}

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34 pages, 3 figures