Transitive conformal holonomy groups
Differential Geometry
2011-07-05 v1
Abstract
For a conformal manifold of signature and dimension at least three, the conformal holonomy group is an invariant induced by the canonical Cartan geometry of . We give a description of all possible connected conformal holonomy groups which act transitively on the M\"obius sphere , the homogeneous model space for conformal structures of signature . The main part of this description is a list of all such groups which also act irreducibly on . For the rest, we show that they must be compact and act decomposably on , in particular, by known facts about conformal holonomy the conformal class must contain a metric which is locally isometric to a so-called special Einstein product.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1107.0617,
title = {Transitive conformal holonomy groups},
author = {Jesse Alt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.0617},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
9 pages, LaTeX