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Weyl structures with special holonomy on compact conformal manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-02-04 v2

Abstract

We consider compact conformal manifolds (M,[g])(M,[g]) endowed with a closed Weyl structure \nabla, i.e. a torsion-free connection preserving the conformal structure, which is locally but not globally the Levi-Civita connection of a metric in [g][g]. Our aim is to classify all such structures when both \nabla and g\nabla^g, the Levi-Civita connection of gg, have special holonomy. In such a setting, (M,[g],)(M,[g],\nabla) 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 \nabla has irreducible holonomy we prove that (M,g)(M,g) is either Vaisman, or a mapping torus of an isometry of a compact nearly K\"ahler or nearly parallel G2\mathrm{G}_2 manifold, while in the LCP case we prove that gg 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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T10:31:47.496Z