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On a $3$D manifold, a Weyl geometry consists of pairs $(g, A) =$ (metric, $1$-form) modulo gauge $\widehat{g} = {\rm e}^{2\varphi} g$, $\widehat{A} = A + {\rm d}\varphi$. In 1943, Cartan showed that every solution to the Einstein-Weyl…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Joël Merker , Paweł Nurowski

We derive a Weyl invariant equation for Gravity by gauging the global Weyl invariance of vacuum Einstein equations. The equation is linear in the curvature and a natural generalization of Einstein equations to Weyl geometry. The system has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Máximo Bañados

Exploiting the special features of four-dimensional Riemannian geometry, we derive topological and rigidity results for hypersurfaces immersed in space forms of dimension 5. First, we provide a complete description of the Weyl tensor for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Davide Dameno , Aaron J. Tyrrell

We analyze oriented Riemannian 4-manifolds whose Weyl tensors $W$ satisfy the conformally invariant condition $W(T,\cdot,\cdot,T) = 0$ for some nonzero vector $T$. While this can be algebraically classified via $W$'s normal form, we find a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Amir Babak Aazami

In this paper, we study closed four-dimensional manifolds. In particular, we show that under various new pinching curvature conditions (for example, the sectional curvature is no more than 5/6 of the smallest Ricci eigenvalue) then the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Xiaodong Cao , Hung Tran

We introduce the new algebraic property of Weyl compatibility for symmetric tensors and vectors. It is strictly related to Riemann compatibility, which generalizes the Codazzi condition while preserving much of its geometric implications.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Carlo A. Mantica , Luca G. Molinari

We investigate the Weyl tensor algebraic structure of a fully general family of D-dimensional geometries that admit a non-twisting and shear-free null vector field k. From the coordinate components of the curvature tensor we explicitly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-05 Jiri Podolsky , Robert Svarc

The Petrov classification is an important algebraic classification for the Weyl tensor valid in 4-dimensional space-times. In this thesis such classification is generalized to manifolds of arbitrary dimension and signature. This is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-19 Carlos Batista

We develop a dimension-independent theory of alignment in Lorentzian geometry, and apply it to the tensor classification problem for the Weyl and Ricci tensors. First, we show that the alignment condition is equivalent to the PND equation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Milson , A. Coley , V. Pravda , A. Pravdova

We have proceeded analogy of Einstein tensor and alternative form of Einstein field equations for generic coeffcients of eight terms in third order of Lovelock Lagrangian. We have found constraint between the coeffcients into two forms, an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-04 Mehrdad Farhoudi

A Riemannian manifold is called Weyl homogeneous, if its Weyl tensors at any two points are "the same", up to a positive multiple. A Weyl homogeneous manifold is modeled on a homogeneous space $M_0$, if its Weyl tensor at every point is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Y. Nikolayevsky

Motivated by the study of Weyl structures on conformal manifolds admitting parallel weightless forms, we define the notion of conformal product of conformal structures and study its basic properties. We obtain a classification of Weyl…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Florin Belgun , Andrei Moroianu

We compute a Bochner type formula for static three-manifolds and deduce some applications in the case of positive scalar curvature. We also explain in details the known general construction of the (Riemannian) Einstein (n+1)-manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-13 L. Ambrozio

We consider four-dimensional, Riemannian, Ricci-flat metrics for which one or other of the self-dual or anti-self-dual Weyl tensors is type-D. Such metrics always have a valence-2 Killing spinor, and therefore a Hermitian structure and at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-28 Paul Tod

We consider four-dimensional, Riemannian metrics for which one or other of the self-dual or anti-self-dual Weyl tensors is type-D and which satisfy the Einstein-Maxwell equations with the corresponding Maxwell field aligned with the type-D…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Paul Tod

Scalar curvature invariants are studied in type N solutions of vacuum Einstein's equations with in general non-vanishing cosmological constant Lambda. Zero-order invariants which include only the metric and Weyl (Riemann) tensor either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Bicak , V. Pravda

We analyse in a systematic way the four dimensionnal Einstein-Weyl spaces equipped with a diagonal K\"ahler Bianchi IX metric. In particular, we show that the subclass of Einstein-Weyl structures with a constant conformal scalar curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Guy Bonneau

We study the Jones and Tod correspondence between selfdual conformal 4-manifolds with a conformal vector field and abelian monopoles on Einstein-Weyl 3-manifolds, and prove that invariant complex structures correspond to shear-free geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 David M. J. Calderbank , H. Pedersen

We study a host of spacetimes where the Weyl curvature may be expressed algebraically in terms of an Abelian field strength. These include Type D spacetimes in four and higher dimensions which obey a simple quadratic relation between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Rashid Alawadhi , David S. Berman , Bill Spence

The problem of obtaining an explicit representation for the fourth invariant of geodesic motion (generalized Carter constant) of an arbitrary stationary axisymmetric vacuum spacetime generated from an Ernst Potential is considered. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jeandrew Brink