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We present a geometric construction and characterization of $2n$-dimensional split-signature conformal structures endowed with a twistor spinor with integrable kernel. The construction is regarded as a modification of the conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Matthias Hammerl , Katja Sagerschnig , Josef Šilhan , Vojtěch Žádník

We study sequences of conformal deformations of a smooth closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$, assuming uniform volume bounds and $L^{n/2}$ bounds on their scalar curvatures. Singularities may appear in the limit. Nevertheless, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Clara L. Aldana , Gilles Carron , Samuel Tapie

The Kaehler manifolds of quasi-constant holomorphic sectional curvatures are introduced as Kaehler manifolds with complex distribution of codimension two, whose holomorphic sectional curvature only depends on the corresponding point and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-04 Georgi Ganchev , Vesselka Mihova

We study a Fefferman-type construction based on the inclusion of Lie groups ${\rm SL}(n+1)$ into ${\rm Spin}(n+1,n+1)$. The construction associates a split-signature $(n,n)$-conformal spin structure to a projective structure of dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Matthias Hammerl , Katja Sagerschnig , Josef Šilhan , Arman Taghavi-Chabert , Vojtěch Žádník

We give some rigidity theorems for an n$(\geq4)$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with harmonic Weyl curvature, positive scalar curvature and positive constant $\sigma_2$. Moreover, when $n=4,$ we prove that a 4-dimensional compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Haiping Fu , Huiya He

In Part I, we develop the notions of a Moebius structure and a conformal Cartan geometry, establish an equivalence between them; we use them in Part II to study submanifolds of conformal manifolds in arbitrary dimension and codimension. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-30 Francis E. Burstall , David M. J. Calderbank

Compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds that have parallel Weyl tensor without being conformally flat or locally symmetric are known to exist in infinitely many dimensions greater than 4. We prove some general topological properties of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Andrzej Derdzinski , Witold Roter

The main result of this paper is the conformal flatness of real-analytic compact Lorentz manifolds of dimension at least $3$ admitting a conformal essential (i.e. conformal, but not isometric) action of a Lie group locally isomorphic to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Vincent Pecastaing

The aim of the present paper is to establish a global theory of conformal changes in Finsler geometry. Under this change, we obtain the relationships between the most important geometric objects associated to $(M,L)$ and the corresponding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-08-14 Nabil L. Youssef , S. H. Abed , A. Soleiman

We derive all possible causality conditions for conformally flat Lorentzian metrics on the two-dimensional cylinder.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-01 Alexander Dirmeier

We apply the theory of Weyl structures for parabolic geometries developed by A. Cap and J. Slovak in to compute, for a quaternionic contact (qc) structure, the Weyl connection associated to a choice of scale, i.e. to a choice of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-17 Jesse Alt

We show that complete conformally flat manifolds of dimension n>2 with nonnegative Ricci curvature enjoy nice rigidity properties: they are either flat, or locally isometric to a product of a sphere and a line, or are globally conformally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gilles Carron , Marc Herzlich

In this article, we investigate the interplay between the curvature operator, Weyl curvature, and the Hopf conjecture on compact Riemannian manifolds of even dimension. By decomposing the curvature operator into Hermitian components, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Teng Huang , Weiwei Wang

We establish a one-to-one correspondence between Finsler structures on the $2$-sphere with constant curvature $1$ and all geodesics closed on the one hand, and Weyl connections on certain spindle orbifolds whose symmetric Ricci curvature is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Christian Lange , Thomas Mettler

We construct polynomial conformal invariants, the vanishing of which is necessary and sufficient for an $n$-dimensional suitably generic (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold to be conformal to an Einstein manifold. We also construct invariants…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Rod Gover , Pawel Nurowski

We give an explicit description of the Fefferman metric for twistor CR manifolds in terms of Riemannian structures on the base conformal 3-manifolds. As an application, we prove that chains and null chains on twistor CR manifolds project to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Taiji Marugame

Comparison theorems are foundational to our understanding of the geometric features implied by various curvature constraints. This paper considers manifolds with a positive lower bound on either scalar, 2-Ricci, or Ricci curvature, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Sven Hirsch , Demetre Kazaras , Marcus Khuri , Yiyue Zhang

We consider the problem of finding complete conformal metrics with prescribed curvature functions of the Einstein tensor and of more general modified Schouten tensors. To achieve this, we reveal an algebraic structure of a wide class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Rirong Yuan

We approach the problem of finding obstructions to curvature distinguished Riemannian metrics by considering Lorentzian metrics to which they are dual in a suitable sense. Obstructions to the latter then yield obstructions to the former.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Amir Babak Aazami

All spherically symmetric Riemannian metrics of constant scalar curvature in any dimension can be written down in a simple form using areal coordinates. All spherical metrics are conformally flat, so we search for the conformally flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Patryk Mach , Niall Ó Murchadha