Conformal Patterson-Walker metrics

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Authors	HAMMERL Matthias SAGERSCHNIG Katja ŠILHAN Josef TAGHAVI-CHABERT Arman ŽÁDNÍK Vojtěch
Year of publication	2019
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	The Asian Journal of Mathematics
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
web	https://www.intlpress.com/site/pub/pages/journals/items/ajm/content/vols/0023/0005/a001/index.php
Doi	https://doi.org/10.4310/AJM.2019.v23.n5.a1
Keywords	Differential geometry; Parabolic geometry; Projective structure; Conformal structure; Einstein metrics; Conformal Killing field; Twistor spinors
Description	The classical Patterson-Walker construction of a split-signature (pseudo-)Riemannian structure from a given torsion-free affine connection is generalized to a construction of a split-signature conformal structure from a given projective class of connections. A characterization of the induced structures is obtained. We achieve a complete description of Einstein metrics in the conformal class formed by the Patterson-Walker metric. Finally, we describe all symmetries of the conformal Patterson-Walker metric. In both cases we obtain descriptions in terms of geometric data on the original structure.
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