Timelike conformal fields on closed $3$-manifolds
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| author | Gnandi, Emmanuel Massamba, Fortuné |
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| contents | This paper investigates timelike conformal vector fields on closed Lorentzian $3$-manifolds and shows that, although these fields form a broader class than Killing fields, their behavior in dimension three is nonetheless remarkably rigid. After performing a conformal change of the metric so that the vector field becomes unit and Killing, we analyze the geometry of the flow it generates through the framework of stable Hamiltonian structures and basic cohomology. Our main result proves that any nowhere-vanishing timelike conformal vector field necessarily arises as the Reeb vector field of either a Sasakian structure or a co-Kähler structure. In other words, every such Lorentzian conformal flow is intrinsically "Reeb-like", which forces the underlying geometry to be either contact or cosymplectic. This establishes a striking connection between Lorentzian geometry, Sasakian and co-Kähler structures, and the topology of flows in dimension~$3$. |
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| spellingShingle | Timelike conformal fields on closed $3$-manifolds Gnandi, Emmanuel Massamba, Fortuné Differential Geometry 53C25, 53C50 This paper investigates timelike conformal vector fields on closed Lorentzian $3$-manifolds and shows that, although these fields form a broader class than Killing fields, their behavior in dimension three is nonetheless remarkably rigid. After performing a conformal change of the metric so that the vector field becomes unit and Killing, we analyze the geometry of the flow it generates through the framework of stable Hamiltonian structures and basic cohomology. Our main result proves that any nowhere-vanishing timelike conformal vector field necessarily arises as the Reeb vector field of either a Sasakian structure or a co-Kähler structure. In other words, every such Lorentzian conformal flow is intrinsically "Reeb-like", which forces the underlying geometry to be either contact or cosymplectic. This establishes a striking connection between Lorentzian geometry, Sasakian and co-Kähler structures, and the topology of flows in dimension~$3$. |
| title | Timelike conformal fields on closed $3$-manifolds |
| topic | Differential Geometry 53C25, 53C50 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00901 |