Special holonomy on compact conformal manifolds
Florin Belgun
Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Abstract:
On a compact conformal manifold, we consider as well
a compatible Riemannian metric and a closed, non-exact
Weyl connection (which is detemined by a compatible metric on the universal covering,
for which the fundmental group acts by homotheties). Our aim is to classify locally
the structure of a compact conformal manifold for which both a Riemannian and a
closed Weyl connection have special (i.e. non-generic) holonomies. If the
Weyl connection has irreducible holonomy, the Riemannian metric turns out to
be Vaisman or a mapping torus of an isometry of a Nearly Kähler or a nearly parallel $G2$ metric,
while if the Weyl structure is Locally Conformally a Product (LCP),
then it turns out that the Riemannian metric is also (locally) a product,
and can be described locally as a special kind of double warped product.