The distribution of symmetry of a naturally reductive nilpotent Lie group (Q2417649): Difference between revisions

The author studies the distribution of symmetry of a naturally reductive nilpotent Lie group. It was proved in [\textit{C. Olmos} et al., Math. Z. 277, No. 3--4, 611--628 (2014; Zbl 1302.53056)] that the distribution of symmetry of a compact irreducible naturally reductive space, with respect to an appropriate presentation, coincides with the invariant distribution induced by the set of fixed vectors of the isotropy group. In the paper under review, some extensions of the above result to nilpotent Lie groups are obtained. The main result of the paper is the following: Let $N$ be a naturally reductive nilpotent Lie group without Euclidean factor. Then the distribution of symmetry of $N$ coincides with the $I(N)$-invariant distribution determined by the fixed vectors of the isotropy representation $I(N)_p \rightarrow T_p N$ at a given point $p\in N$.