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Nurowski's conformal class of a maximally symmetric (2,3,5)-distribution and its Ricci-flat representatives

Differential Geometry 2019-03-07 v1

Abstract

We show that the solutions to the second-order differential equation associated to the generalised Chazy equation with parameters k=2k=2 and k=3k=3 naturally show up in the conformal rescaling that takes a representative metric in Nurowski's conformal class associated to a maximally symmetric (2,3,5)(2,3,5)-distribution (described locally by a certain function φ(x,q)=q2H(x)\varphi(x,q)=\frac{q^2}{H''(x)}) to a Ricci-flat one.

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@article{arxiv.1903.02245,
  title  = {Nurowski's conformal class of a maximally symmetric (2,3,5)-distribution and its Ricci-flat representatives},
  author = {Matthew Randall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.02245},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages