Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society

Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society

Conformal mappings preserving the Einstein tensor of Weyl manifolds

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
1 Istanbul Technical university Maslak
2 Istanbul technical university Faculty of Science and letters, dept . of Math., maslak
Abstract
In this paper, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a conformal mapping between two Weyl manifolds to preserve Einstein tensor. Then we prove that some basic curvature tensors of $W_n$ are preserved by such a conformal mapping if and only if the covector field of the mapping is locally a gradient. Also, we obtained the relation between the scalar curvatures of the Weyl manifolds related by a conformal mapping preserving the Einstein tensor with a gradient covector field. Then, we prove that a Weyl manifold $W_n$ and a flat Weyl manifold $\tilde{W}_n$, which are in a conformal correspondence preserving the Einstein tensor are Einstein-Weyl manifolds. Moreover, we show that an isotropic Weyl manifold is an Einstein-Weyl manifold with zero scalar curvature and we obtain that a Weyl manifold $W_n$ and an isotropic Weyl manifold related by the conformal mapping preserving the Einstein tensor are Einstein-Weyl manifolds.
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  • Receive Date 25 April 2013
  • Revise Date 10 March 2014
  • Accept Date 13 March 2014