Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2015
Abstract
Nurowski introduced a conformal class of metrics associated to any generic rank 2 distribution in 5 dimensions. From this conformal class one can use the Fefferman-Graham construction to define a pseudo-Riemannian metric in 7 dimensions. All such metrics are known to have special holonomy, that is, the holonomy is a subgroup of the split form of the exceptional group G[2] .
This worksheet provides details of computations contained in the paper "Explicit Ambient Metrics and Holonomy", arXiv:1501.00852, by I. M. Anderson, T. Leistner and P. Nurowski,
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Ian M.; Leistner, Thomas; and Nurowski, Pawel, "Fefferman-Graham Metrics from Nurowski Conformal Structures and their Infinitesimal Holonomy" (2015). Research Vignettes. Paper 10.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/dg_applications/10
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