Joint Seminar of the Analysis, Geometry and Topology Department
The next meeting of the Joint Seminar of Analysis, Geometry and Topology Department will be held on April 28, 2022 at 1:00 pm (UTC+3) in Room 478 of IMI. A talk on: Isotropic Killing vector fields and structures on complex surfaces will be delivered by Gueo Grantcharov, Florida International University, USA. Everybody is invited. Abstract. In a 4-dimensional vector space with scalar product of signature (2,2), two independent vectors spanning a maximal isotropic (null) plane determine a canonical action of the para-quaternioins. We noticed that on an oriented 4-manifold with such pseudo-Riemannian metric, existence of two isotropic (null) Killing vector fields leads to integrability of the induced structure - called para-hypercomplex, and the metric is anti-selfdual. Using the Kodaira classification one can describe the [...]
