Para-Kahler-Einstein 4-manifolds and non-integrable twistor distributions

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BOR Gil MAKHMALI Omid NUROWSKI Pawel

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Geometriae Dedicata
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10711-021-00665-4
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10711-021-00665-4
Keywords Para-complex structure; Para-Kahler structure; Einstein metric; Cartan geometry; Cartan reduction; Petrov type; (2; 3; 5)-distribution; Conformal structure
Description We study the local geometry of 4-manifolds equipped with a para-Kahler-Einstein (pKE) metric, a special type of split-signature pseudo-Riemannian metric, and their associated twistor distribution, a rank 2 distribution on the 5-dimensional total space of the circle bundle of self-dual null 2-planes. For pKE metrics with non-zero scalar curvature this twistor distribution has exactly two integral leaves and is 'maximally non-integrable' on their complement, a so-called (2,3,5)-distribution. Our main result establishes a simple correspondence between the anti-self-dual Weyl tensor of a pKE metric with non-zero scalar curvature and the Cartan quartic of the associated twistor distribution. This will be followed by a discussion of this correspondence for general split-signature metrics which is shown to be much more involved. We use Cartan's method of equivalence to produce a large number of explicit examples of pKE metrics with non-zero scalar curvature whose anti-self-dual Weyl tensor have special real Petrov type. In the case of real Petrov type D, we obtain a complete local classification. Combined with the main result, this produces twistor distributions whose Cartan quartic has the same algebraic type as the Petrov type of the constructed pKE metrics. In a similar manner, one can obtain twistor distributions with Cartan quartic of arbitrary algebraic type. As a byproduct of our pKE examples we naturally obtain para-Sasaki-Einstein metrics in five dimensions. Furthermore, we study various Cartan geometries naturally associated to certain classes of pKE 4-dimensional metrics. We observe that in some geometrically distinguished cases the corresponding Cartan connections satisfy the Yang-Mills equations. We then provide explicit examples of such Yang-Mills Cartan connections.
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