Quasihomogeneous three-dimensional real analytic Lorentz metrics

We classify germs at the origin of real analytic Lorentz metrics on R^3 which are quasihomogeneous, in the sense that they are locally homogeneous on an open set containing the origin in its closure, but not locally homogeneous in the neighborhood of the origin.Comment: 11 page

Quasihomogeneous three-dimensional real analytic Lorentz metrics do not exist

We show that a germ of a real analytic Lorentz metric on ${\bf R}^3$ which is locally homogeneous on an open set containing the origin in its closure is necessarily locally homogeneous. We classifiy Lie algebras that can act quasihomogeneously---meaning they act transitively on an open set admitting the origin in its closure, but not at the origin---and isometrically for such a metric. In the case that the isotropy at the origin of a quasihomogeneous action is semisimple, we provide a complete set of normal forms of the metric and the action.Comment: 23 pp. Took the place of "Quasihomogeneous three-dimensional real analytic Lorentz metrics" (arXiv:1401.6272), which was withdrawn by the first author. Revised version incorporates several minor corrections, including those suggested by the refere

Branched holomorphic Cartan geometries and Calabi-Yau manifolds

We introduce the concept of a branched holomorphic Cartan geometry. It generalizes to higher dimension the definition of branched (flat) complex projective structure on a Riemann surface introduced by Mandelbaum. This new framework is much more flexible than that of the usual holomorphic Cartan geometries. We show that all compact complex projective manifolds admit branched flat holomorphic projective structure. We also give an example of a non-flat branched holomorphic normal projective structure on a compact complex surface. It is known that no compact complex surface admits such a structure with empty branching locus. We prove that non-projective compact simply connected K\"ahler Calabi-Yau manifolds do not admit branched holomorphic projective structures. The key ingredient of its proof is the following result of independent interest: If E is a holomorphic vector bundle over a compact simply connected K\"ahler Calabi-Yau manifold, and E admits a holomorphic connection, then E is a trivial holomorphic vector bundle equipped with the trivial connection.Comment: 24 pages; revised versio

Symmetries of holomorphic geometric structures on tori

We prove that any holomorphic locally homogeneous geometric structure on a complex torus, modelled on a complex homogeneous surface, is translation invariant. We conjecture that this result is true is any dimension. In higher dimension we prove it here for nilpotent models. We also prove that in any dimension the translation invariant $(X, G)$-structures form a union of connected components in the deformation space of $(X, G)$-structures.Comment: 17 page