A hyperbolic twistor space.
A journey between two curves.
A Product Twistor Space
∗Research supported in part by NSF grant INT-9903302.In previous work a hyperbolic twistor space over a paraquaternionic Kähler manifold was defined, the fibre being the hyperboloid model of the hyperbolic plane with constant curvature −1. Two almost complex structures were defined on this twistor space and their properties studied. In the present paper we consider a twistor space over a paraquaternionic Kähler manifold with fibre given by the hyperboloid of 1-sheet, the anti-de-Sitter plane...
Compatible complex structures on twistor space
Let be a Riemannian 4-manifold. The associated twistor space is a bundle whose total space admits a natural metric. The aim of this article is to study properties of complex structures on which are compatible with the fibration and the metric. The results obtained enable us to translate some metric properties on (scalar flat, scalar-flat Kähler...) in terms of complex properties of its twistor space .
Differential geometry of quaternionic manifolds
Ellipticity of the symplectic twistor complex
For a Fedosov manifold (symplectic manifold equipped with a symplectic torsion-free affine connection) admitting a metaplectic structure, we shall investigate two sequences of first order differential operators acting on sections of certain infinite rank vector bundles defined over this manifold. The differential operators are symplectic analogues of the twistor operators known from Riemannian or Lorentzian spin geometry. It is known that the mentioned sequences form complexes if the symplectic...
Espace de twisteurs d’une variété presque hermitienne de dimension 6
On s’intéresse à l’espace de twisteurs réduit d’une variété presque hermitienne, en relisant un article de N.R.O’Brian et J.H.Rawnsley (Ann. Global Anal. Geom., 1985). On traite la question laissée ouverte de la dimension 6. Cet espace est muni d’une structure presque complexe en utilisant la distribution horizontale de la connexion hermitienne canonique. On montre qu’une condition nécessaire d’intégrabilité de est que la variété soit de type dans la classification de Gray et Hervella. Dans...
Espaces twistoriels et structures complexes non standards
First-order twistor lifts.
Geometry of some twistor spaces of algebraic dimension one
It is shown that there exists a twistor space on the n-fold connected sum of complex projective planes nCP2, whose algebraic dimension is one and whose general fiber of the algebraic reduction is birational to an elliptic ruled surface or a K3 surface. The former kind of twistor spaces are constructed over nCP2 for any n ≥ 5, while the latter kind of example is constructed over 5CP2. Both of these seem to be the first such example on nCP2. The algebraic reduction in these examples is induced by...
Harmonic functions on Riemannian manifolds with ends.
Harmonic morphisms between Weyl spaces and twistorial maps II
We define, on smooth manifolds, the notions of almost twistorial structure and twistorial map, thus providing a unified framework for all known examples of twistor spaces. The condition of being a harmonic morphism naturally appears among the geometric properties of submersive twistorial maps between low-dimensional Weyl spaces endowed with a nonintegrable almost twistorial structure due to Eells and Salamon. This leads to the twistorial characterisation of harmonic morphisms between Weyl spaces...
Hyperholomorphic connections on coherent sheaves and stability
Let M be a hyperkähler manifold, and F a reflexive sheaf on M. Assume that F (away from its singularities) admits a connection ▿ with a curvature Θ which is invariant under the standard SU(2)-action on 2-forms. If Θ is square-integrable, such sheaf is called hyperholomorphic. Hyperholomorphic sheaves were studied at great length in [21]. Such sheaves are stable and their singular sets are hyperkähler subvarieties in M. In the present paper, we study sheaves admitting a connection with SU(2)-invariant...
Hyperkähler manifolds
On the twistor bundle of de Sitter space .
Penrose transform and monogenic sections
The Penrose transform gives an isomorphism between the kernel of the -Dirac operator over an affine subset and the third sheaf cohomology group on the twistor space. In the paper we give an integral formula which realizes the isomorphism and decompose the kernel as a module of the Levi factor of the parabolic subgroup. This gives a new insight into the structure of the kernel of the operator.
Properties of operators occurring in the Penrose transform
It is shown that operators occurring in the classical Penrose transform are differential. These operators are identified depending on line bundles over the twistor space.
Quaternionic contact structures in dimension
The conformal infinity of a quaternionic-Kähler metric on a -manifold with boundary is a codimension distribution on the boundary called quaternionic contact. In dimensions greater than , a quaternionic contact structure is always the conformal infinity of a quaternionic-Kähler metric. On the contrary, in dimension , we prove a criterion for quaternionic contact structures to be the conformal infinity of a quaternionic-Kähler metric. This allows us to find the quaternionic-contact structures...
Recent advances in the theory of holonomy
Selfdual spaces with complex structures, Einstein-Weyl geometry and geodesics
We study the Jones and Tod correspondence between selfdual conformal -manifolds with a conformal vector field and abelian monopoles on Einstein-Weyl -manifolds, and prove that invariant complex structures correspond to shear-free geodesic congruences. Such congruences exist in abundance and so provide a tool for constructing interesting selfdual geometries with symmetry, unifying the theories of scalar-flat Kähler metrics and hypercomplex structures with symmetry. We also show that in the presence...