Conformal transformation, conformal change, and conformal covariants
Applying concepts and tools from classical tangent bundle geometry and using the apparatus of the calculus along the tangent bundle projection (‘pull-back formalism’), first we enrich the known lists of the characterizations of affine vector fields on a spray manifold and conformal vector fields on a Finsler manifold. Second, we deduce consequences on vector fields on the underlying manifold of a Finsler structure having one or two of the mentioned geometric properties.
Given a three-dimensional manifold with boundary, the Cartan-Hadamard theorem implies that there are obstructions to filling the interior of the manifold with a complete metric of negative curvature. In this paper, we show that any three-dimensional manifold with boundary can be filled conformally with a complete metric satisfying a pinching condition: given any small constant, the ratio of the largest sectional curvature to (the absolute value of) the scalar curvature is less than this constant....
We prove the existence and the uniqueness of a conformally equivariant symbol calculus and quantization on any conformally flat pseudo-riemannian manifold . In other words, we establish a canonical isomorphism between the spaces of polynomials on and of differential operators on tensor densities over , both viewed as modules over the Lie algebra where . This quantization exists for generic values of the weights of the tensor densities and we compute the critical values of the weights yielding...
We study conformally flat Lorentzian three-manifolds which are either semi-symmetric or pseudo-symmetric. Their complete classification is obtained under hypotheses of local homogeneity and curvature homogeneity. Moreover, examples which are not curvature homogeneous are described.
We give the complete classification of conformally flat pseudo-symmetric spaces of constant type.
We obtain the complete classification of conformally flat semi-symmetric spaces.
In this paper we study conformally geodesic mappings between pseudo-Riemannian manifolds and , i.e. mappings satisfying , where are conformal mappings and is a geodesic mapping. Suppose that the initial condition is satisfied at a point and that at this point the conformal Weyl tensor does not vanish. We prove that then is necessarily conformal.