Metric connections with parallel twistor-free torsion

Abstract

The torsion of every metric connection on a Riemannian manifold has three components: one totally skew-symmetric, one of vectorial type and one of twistorial type, which is also called the traceless cyclic component. In this paper we classify complete simply connected Riemannian manifolds carrying a metric connection whose torsion is parallel, has nonzero vectorial component and vanishing twistorial component.