The ambient obstruction tensor and conformal holonomy
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2017
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Leistner, T.
Lischewski, A.
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Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 2017; 290(2):403-436
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Thomas Leistner and Andree Lischewski
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For a conformal manifold, we describe a new relation between the ambient obstruction tensor of Fefferman and Graham and the holonomy of the normal conformal Cartan connection. This relation allows us to prove several results on the vanishing and the rank of the obstruction tensor, for example for conformal structures admitting twistor spinors or normal conformal Killing forms. As our main tool we introduce the notion of a conformal holonomy distribution and show that its integrability is closely related to the exceptional conformal structures in dimensions five and six that were found by Nurowski and Bryant.
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