The spaces of curvature tensors for holonomy algebras of Lorentzian manifolds

Abstract

The holonomy algebra $\g$ of an indecomposable Lorentzian (n+2)-dimensional manifold $M$ is a weakly-irreducible subalgebra of the Lorentzian algebra $\so_{1,n+1}$. L. Berard Bergery and A. Ikemakhen divided weakly-irreducible not irreducible subalgebras into 4 types and associated with each such subalgebra $\g$ a subalgebra $\h\subset \so_n$ of the orthogonal Lie algebra. We give a description of the spaces $\R(\g)$ of the curvature tensors for algebras of each type in terms of the space $¶(\h)$ of $\h$-valued 1-forms on $\Real^n$ that satisfy the Bianchi identity and reduce the classification of the holonomy algebras of Lorentzian manifolds to the classification of irreducible subalgebras $\h$ of $so(n)$ with $L(¶(\h))=\h$. We prove that for $n\le 9$ any such subalgebra $\h$ is the holonomy algebra of a Riemannian manifold. This gives a classification of the holonomy algebras for Lorentzian manifolds $M$ of dimension $\le 11$.

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