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Compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor

Differential Geometry 2009-12-16 v1

Abstract

It is shown that in every dimension n=3j+2, j=1,2,3,..., there exist compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor, which are Ricci-recurrent, but neither conformally flat nor locally symmetric, and represent all indefinite metric signatures. The manifolds in question are diffeomorphic to nontrivial torus bundles over the circle. They all arise from a construction that a priori yields bundles over the circle, having as the fibre either a torus, or a 2-step nilmanifold with a complete flat torsionfree connection; our argument only realizes the torus case.

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@article{arxiv.math/0702491,
  title  = {Compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor},
  author = {Andrzej Derdzinski and Witold Roter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0702491},
  year   = {2009}
}

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