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On four-dimensional closed manifolds we introduce a class of canonical Riemannian metrics, that we call weak harmonic Weyl metrics, defined as critical points in the conformal class of a quadratic functional involving the norm of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario D. Monticelli , Fabio Punzo

In the first part of this article we revisit the theory of weighted spinors on conformal manifolds. In the second part we introduce the notions of asymptotically flat Weyl structures and of associated mass, and we prove a conformal version…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-15 Guillaume Vassal

We show that the Teukolsky connection, which defines generalized wave operators governing the behavior of massless fields on Einstein spacetimes of Petrov type D, has its origin in a distinguished conformally and GHP covariant connection on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Bernardo Araneda

We characterize manifolds which are locally conformally equivalent to either complex projective space or to its negative curvature dual in terms of their Weyl curvature tensor. As a byproduct of this investigation, we classify the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 N. Blazic , P. Gilkey

We study the geometric structure of weighted Einstein smooth metric measure spaces with weighted harmonic Weyl tensor. A complete local classification is provided, showing that either the underlying manifold is Einstein, or decomposes as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Miguel Brozos-Vázquez , Diego Mojón-Álvarez

For more than hundred years, various concepts were developed to understand the fields of geometric objects and invariant differential operators between them for conformal Riemannian and projective geometries. More recently, several general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Andreas Cap , Jan Slovak

Abundant second-order maximally conformally superintegrable Hamiltonian systems are re-examined, revealing their underlying natural Weyl structure and offering a clearer geometric context for the study of St\"ackel transformations (also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Andreas Vollmer

Weyl conformal geometry is a gauge theory of scale invariance that naturally brings together the Standard Model (SM) and Einstein gravity. The SM embedding in this geometry is possible without new degrees of freedom beyond SM and Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-14 D. M. Ghilencea

The aim of this paper is to study from the point of view of linear connections the data $(M,\mathcal{D},g,W),$ with $M$ a smooth $(n+p)$ dimensional real manifold, $(\mathcal{D},g)$ a \textit{$n$}\textit{\emph{dimensional semi-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-05 Oana Constantinescu , Mircea Crasmareanu

We introduce a new family of operators in 4-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with a non-vanishing Weyl scalar (non-degenerate spaces) that keep the conformal covariance of \emph{conformally covariant tensor concomitants}. A…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Alfonso García-Parrado

We analyze the structure of the set of limiting Carleman weights in all conformally flat manifolds, 3-manifolds, and 4-manifolds. In particular we give a new proof of the classification of Euclidean limiting Carleman weights, and show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Pablo Angulo-Ardoy , Daniel Faraco , Luis Guijarro , Mikko Salo

Conformally recurrent pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of dimension n>4 are investigated. The Weyl tensor is represented as a Kulkarni-Nomizu product. If the square of the Weyl tensor is nonzero, a covariantly constant symmetric tensor is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Carlo A. Mantica , Luca G. Molinari

Construction of an infinite dimensional differentiable manifold ${\mathbb R}^{\infty}$ not modelled on any Banach space is proposed. Definition, metric and differential structures of a Weyl algebra and a Weyl algebra bundle are presented.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaromir Tosiek

We study complex 4-manifolds with holomorphic self-dual conformal structures, and we obtain an interpretation of the Weyl tensor of such a manifold as the projective curvature of a field of cones on the ambitwistor space. In particular, its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. A. Belgun

We find the local form of all non-closed Lorentzian Weyl manifolds $(M,c,\nabla)$ with recurrent curvature tensor.If the dimension of the manifold is greater than 3, then the conformal structure is flat, and the recurrent Weyl structure is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Andrei Dikarev , Anton S. Galaev , Eivind Schneider

Weyl geometry is a natural extension of conformal geometry with Weyl covariance mediated by a Weyl connection. We generalize the Fefferman-Graham (FG) ambient construction for conformal manifolds to a corresponding construction for Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Weizhen Jia , Manthos Karydas , Robert G. Leigh

We analyse in a systematic way the (non-)compact four dimensional Einstein-Weyl spaces equipped with a Bianchi metric. We show that Einstein-Weyl structures with a Class A Bianchi metric have a conformal scalar curvature of constant sign on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Guy Bonneau

This is a final step in a local classification of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor that are not conformally flat or locally symmetric.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Andrzej Derdzinski , Witold Roter

In this paper, we give a new approach for the study of Weyl-type theorems. Precisely we introduce the concepts of spectral valued and spectral partitioning functions. Using two natural order relations on the set of spectral valued…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-12 Mohammed Berkani

We present a new family of quantum Weyl algebras where the polynomial part is the quantum analog of functions on homogeneous spaces corresponding to symmetric matrices, skew symmetric matrices, and the entire space of matrices of a given…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Gail Letzter , Siddhartha Sahi , Hadi Salmasian