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The algebra of parallel endomorphisms of a pseudo-Riemannian metric: semi-simple part

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2015

CHARLES BOUBEL
CHARLES BOUBEL*
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Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, UMR 7501 – Université de Strasbourg et CNRS, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

On a (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold (${\mathcal M}$, g), some fields of endomorphisms i.e. sections of End(T${\mathcal M}$) may be parallel for g. They form an associative algebra $\mathfrak e$, which is also the commutant of the holonomy group of g. As any associative algebra, $\mathfrak e$ is the sum of its radical and of a semi-simple algebra $\mathfrak s$. Here we study $\mathfrak s$: it may be of eight different types, including the generic type $\mathfrak s$ = ${\mathbb R}$ Id, and the Kähler and hyperkähler types $\mathfrak s$ ≃ ${\mathbb C}$ and $\mathfrak s$ ≃ ${\mathbb H}$. This is a result on real, semi-simple algebras with involution. For each type, the corresponding set of germs of metrics is non-empty; we parametrize it. We give the constraints imposed to the Ricci curvature by parallel endomorphism fields.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 159 , Issue 2 , September 2015 , pp. 219 - 237
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2015 

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