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Transitive conformal holonomy groups

Differential Geometry 2011-07-05 v1

Abstract

For (M,[g])(M,[g]) a conformal manifold of signature (p,q)(p,q) and dimension at least three, the conformal holonomy group Hol(M,[g])O(p+1,q+1)\mathrm{Hol}(M,[g]) \subset O(p+1,q+1) is an invariant induced by the canonical Cartan geometry of (M,[g])(M,[g]). We give a description of all possible connected conformal holonomy groups which act transitively on the M\"obius sphere Sp,qS^{p,q}, the homogeneous model space for conformal structures of signature (p,q)(p,q). The main part of this description is a list of all such groups which also act irreducibly on Rp+1,q+1\R^{p+1,q+1}. For the rest, we show that they must be compact and act decomposably on Rp+1,q+1\R^{p+1,q+1}, in particular, by known facts about conformal holonomy the conformal class [g][g] must contain a metric which is locally isometric to a so-called special Einstein product.

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@article{arxiv.1107.0617,
  title  = {Transitive conformal holonomy groups},
  author = {Jesse Alt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.0617},
  year   = {2011}
}

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