Lattices in some symplectic or affine nilpotent Lie groups (Q2448260)

The authors describe lattices in some nilpotent Lie groups. Among them are four 6-dimensional nilpotent Lie groups: \(N_1(\mathbb{C}), N_1(\mathbb{R}) \times N_1(\mathbb{R}))\) (where \(N_1\) is the nilpotent Heisenberg Lie group over \(\mathbb{R}\) or \(\mathbb{C}\)), \(N_1(D)\) (where \(D\) is the ring of dual numbers) and \(T^\ast N_1(\mathbb{R})\) (the cotangent bundle over \(H_1(\mathbb{R})\)). All these Lie groups are symplectic. The descriptions of all classes of commensurability for lattices in these Lie groups are given. It appears that there in an infinity of such classes in the cases \(H_1(\mathbb{C})\) and \(H_1(\mathbb{R}) \times H_1(\mathbb{R})\) and only one such class in each of the two remaining cases. Also one series of filiform Lie groups is considered in this paper. Lattices in these Lie groups are described in detail. All these lattices for each of these filiform Lie groups are commensurable. So these results show that in some cases there is an infinity of non-homeomorphic (moreover, noncommensurable), compact symplectic nilmanifolds. Some geometric properties of the corresponding affine nilmanifolds are considered. Then some automorphisms of the aforementioned 6-dimensional nilmanifolds are investigated. For the Heisenberg Lie group, defined over a local associative and commutative finite dimensional real algebra, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a left invariant symplectic form is given.