English

Einstein-Weyl structures and Bianchi metrics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyse in a systematic way the (non-)compact four dimensional Einstein-Weyl spaces equipped with a Bianchi metric. We show that Einstein-Weyl structures with a Class A Bianchi metric have a conformal scalar curvature of constant sign on the manifold. Moreover, we prove that most of them are conformally Einstein or conformally K\"ahler ; in the non-exact Einstein-Weyl case with a Bianchi metric of the type VII0,VIIIVII_0, VIII or IXIX, we show that the distance may be taken in a diagonal form and we obtain its explicit 4-parameters expression. This extends our previous analysis, limited to the diagonal, K\"ahler Bianchi IXIX case.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9803009,
  title  = {Einstein-Weyl structures and Bianchi metrics},
  author = {Guy Bonneau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9803009},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex file, 12 pages, a minor modification, accepted for publication in Class. Quant. Grav

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