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Conformally flat Lorentz manifolds and Fefferman Lorentz metrics

Differential Geometry 2010-11-25 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We study conformal Fefferman-Lorentz manifolds introduced by Fefferman. To do so, we introduce Fefferman-Lorentz structure on (2n+2)-dimensional manifolds. By using causal conformal vector fields preserving that structure, we shall establish two theorems on compact Fefferman-Lorentz manifolds: One is the coincidence of vanishing curvature between Weyl conformal curvature tensor of Fefferman metrics on a Lorentz manifold S1×NS^1\times N and Chern-Moser curvature tensor on a strictly pseudoconvex CR-manifold NN. Another is the analogue of the conformal rigidity theorem of Obata and Lelong to the compact Fefferman-Lorentz manifolds admitting noncompact closed causal conformal Fefferman-Lorentz transformations.

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@article{arxiv.0911.0867,
  title  = {Conformally flat Lorentz manifolds and Fefferman Lorentz metrics},
  author = {Yoshinobu Kamishima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.0867},
  year   = {2010}
}
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