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Formes normales pour les champs conformes pseudo-riemanniens

Differential Geometry 2012-09-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We establish normal forms for conformal vector fields on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds in the neighborhood of a singularity. For real-analytic Lorentzian manifolds, we show that the vector field is analytically linearizable or the manifold is conformally flat. In either case, the vector field is locally conjugate to a normal form on a model space. For smooth metrics of general signature, we obtain the analogous result under the additional assumption that the differential of the flow at the fixed point is bounded.

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@article{arxiv.1008.3781,
  title  = {Formes normales pour les champs conformes pseudo-riemanniens},
  author = {Charles Frances and Karin Melnick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3781},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

49 pages, Minor modifications according to referee's comments. To appear in Bulletin de la SMF