Four--Dimensional Metrics Conformal to Kahler

Abstract

We derive some necessary conditions on a Riemannian metric $(M,g)$ in four dimensions for it to be locally conformal to Kähler. If the conformal curvature is non anti--self--dual, the self--dual Weyl spinor must be of algebraic type $D$ and satisfy a simple first order conformally invariant condition which is necessary and sufficient for the existence of a Kähler metric in the conformal class. In the anti--self--dual case we establish a one to one correspondence between Kähler metrics in the conformal class and non--zero parallel sections of a certain connection on a natural rank ten vector bundle over $M$. We use this characterisation to provide examples of ASD metrics which are not conformal to Kähler. We establish a link between the `conformal to Kähler condition' in dimension four and the metrisability of projective structures in dimension two. A projective structure on a surface $U$ is metrisable if and only if the induced (2, 2) conformal structure on $M=TU$ admits a Kähler metric or a para-Kähler metric.

A new example added. Final version, to appear in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

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