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Local Type I Metrics with Holonomy in ${\rm G}_{2}^*$

Differential Geometry 2018-08-06 v3

Abstract

By [arXiv:1604.00528], a list of possible holonomy algebras for pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with an indecomposable torsion free G2{\rm G}_{2}^*-structure is known. Here indecomposability means that the standard representation of the algebra on R4,3{\mathbb R}^{4,3} does not leave invariant any proper non-degenerate subspace. The dimension of the socle of this representation is called the type of the Lie algebra. It is equal to one, two or three. In the present paper, we use Cartan's theory of exterior differential systems to show that all Lie algebras of Type I from the list in [arXiv:1604.00528] can indeed be realised as the holonomy of a local metric. All these Lie algebras are contained in the maximal parabolic subalgebra p1\mathfrak p_1 that stabilises one isotropic line of R4,3{\mathbb R}^{4,3}. In particular, we realise p1\mathfrak p_1 by a local metric.

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@article{arxiv.1705.00023,
  title  = {Local Type I Metrics with Holonomy in ${\rm G}_{2}^*$},
  author = {Anna Fino and Ines Kath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00023},
  year   = {2018}
}
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