Lorentzian Lichnerowicz conjecture

Let MM be a closed Lorentzian conformal manifold. It is essential if its conformal transformation group does not preserve any metric in the conformal class. Lorentzian Lichnerowicz conjecture. If MM is an essential, closed, Lorentzian conformal manifold, then MM is conformally flat.

The conjecture is a Lorentzian analogue of Lichnerowicz-type results concerning essential transformation groups of geometric structures. Significant progress is known, but the conjecture remains unresolved in full generality.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Toby Aldape, “Failure of Lichnerowicz-type result in parabolic geometries of real rank at least 3”, arXiv:2509.12542 (2026).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2307.05436, arXiv:2009.13937, arXiv:1911.06251.

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.