Weyl structures with special holonomy on compact conformal manifolds
Abstract
We consider compact conformal manifolds endowed with a closed Weyl structure , i.e. a torsion-free connection preserving the conformal structure, which is locally but not globally the Levi-Civita connection of a metric in . Our aim is to classify all such structures when both and , the Levi-Civita connection of , have special holonomy. In such a setting, is either flat, or irreducible, or carries a locally conformally product (LCP) structure. Since the flat case is already completely classified, we focus on the last two cases. When has irreducible holonomy we prove that is either Vaisman, or a mapping torus of an isometry of a compact nearly K\"ahler or nearly parallel manifold, while in the LCP case we prove that is neither K\"ahler nor Einstein, thus reducible by the Berger-Simons Theorem, and we obtain the local classification of such structures in terms of adapted metrics.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.06637,
title = {Weyl structures with special holonomy on compact conformal manifolds},
author = {Florin Belgun and Brice Flamencourt and Andrei Moroianu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06637},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
21 pages; a flaw in the proof of Theorem 4.3 was fixed