On Riemannian four-manifolds and their twistor spaces: a moving frame approach

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Autores principales: Catino, Giovanni, Dameno, Davide, Mastrolia, Paolo
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author Catino, Giovanni
Dameno, Davide
Mastrolia, Paolo
author_facet Catino, Giovanni
Dameno, Davide
Mastrolia, Paolo
contents In this paper we study the twistor space $Z$ of an oriented Riemannian four-manifold $M$ using the moving frame approach, focusing, in particular, on the Einstein, non-self-dual setting. We prove that any general first-order linear condition on the almost complex structures of $Z$ forces the underlying manifold $M$ to be self-dual, also recovering most of the known related rigidity results. Thus, we are naturally lead to consider first-order quadratic conditions, showing that the Atiyah-Hitchin-Singer almost Hermitian twistor space of an Einstein four-manifold bears a resemblance, in a suitable sense, to a nearly Kähler manifold.
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spellingShingle On Riemannian four-manifolds and their twistor spaces: a moving frame approach
Catino, Giovanni
Dameno, Davide
Mastrolia, Paolo
Differential Geometry
In this paper we study the twistor space $Z$ of an oriented Riemannian four-manifold $M$ using the moving frame approach, focusing, in particular, on the Einstein, non-self-dual setting. We prove that any general first-order linear condition on the almost complex structures of $Z$ forces the underlying manifold $M$ to be self-dual, also recovering most of the known related rigidity results. Thus, we are naturally lead to consider first-order quadratic conditions, showing that the Atiyah-Hitchin-Singer almost Hermitian twistor space of an Einstein four-manifold bears a resemblance, in a suitable sense, to a nearly Kähler manifold.
title On Riemannian four-manifolds and their twistor spaces: a moving frame approach
topic Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00323