Actions of semisimple Lie groups preserving a degenerate Riemannian metric

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-09-05030-2zbMath1192.53021WikidataQ115289034 ScholiaQ115289034MaRDI QIDQ3559025

Abdelghani Zeghib, Esmaa Bekkara, Charles Frances

Publication date: 11 May 2010

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

semisimple Lie group; isometric action; light-like cone; isotropic direction; light-like metric; sub-Lorentz geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

53B30: Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics

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Rigidity of isometric immersions into the light cone, Lightlike manifolds and Cartan geometries, Left invariant degenerate metrics on Lie groups, On lightlike geometry: isometric actions, and rigidity aspects

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