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$\mathrm{GL}(2)$-structures in dimension four, $H$-flatness and integrability

Differential Geometry 2020-03-04 v1

Abstract

We show that torsion-free four-dimensional GL(2)\mathrm{GL}(2)-structures are flat up to a coframe transformation with a mapping taking values in a certain subgroup HSL(4,R)H\subset\mathrm{SL}(4,\mathbb{R}) which is isomorphic to a semidirect product of the three-dimensional continuous Heisenberg group H3(R)H_3(\mathbb{R}) and the Abelian group R\mathbb{R}. In addition, we show that the relevant PDE system is integrable in the sense that it admits a dispersionless Lax-pair.

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@article{arxiv.1611.08228,
  title  = {$\mathrm{GL}(2)$-structures in dimension four, $H$-flatness and integrability},
  author = {Wojciech Krynski and Thomas Mettler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08228},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages

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