Homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds of a semisimple group (Q764520): Difference between revisions

The main goal of the paper is to describe minimal admissible manifolds \(M=G/H\) of a semisimple Lie group \(G\) and to determine invariant Lorentzian metrics on them. The author gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a proper homogeneous manifold to admit an invariant Lorentzian metric. He also gives a description of admissible manifolds \(G/H\) of a Lie group \(G\) which is a product \(G=G_1 \times G_2\). This reduces the classification of admissible manifolds of a semisimple Lie group \(G\) to the case of a simple group. Thus the author studies minimal admissible manifolds \(M=G/H\) of a simple compact Lie group proving that any such manifold \(M=G/H\) is the total space of the canonical \(T^1\)-bundle \(\pi:M \to G/H_{\alpha} \cdot T^1\) over a minimal adjoint orbit, which corresponds to a simple root of \(G\) and it is the orbit of an element \(t_{\alpha}\) of a Cartan subalgebra associated with the corresponding fundamental weights. The stabilizer \(H_{\alpha}\) is the semisimple part of the centralizer \(Z_G(t_{\alpha})\). Later, the author studies the case of simple noncompact Lie groups and states two classes of admissible manifolds. Geometrically, an admissible manifold \(M=G/H\) belongs to the class I if it admits an invariant Lorentzian metric such that the projection \(M=G/H \to S=G/K\), \(K\) a maximal compact subgroup, is a pseudo-Riemannian submersion with compact Lorentzian totally geodesic fibers \(K/H\). An admissible manifold \(M=G/H\) belongs to class II if it admits an invariant Lorentzian metric with an invariant time-like vector field which generates a non-compact 1-parameter subgroup.