Reductive homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds (Q1360999)

Ambrose-Singer's characterization of connected, simply connected and complete homogeneous Riemannian manifolds in terms of a certain tensor field of type (1,2) on the manifold [\textit{W. Ambrose} and \textit{I. M. Singer}, Duke Math. J. 25, 647-669 (1958; Zbl 0134.17802)] has been generalized by the present authors in a previous paper to the pseudo-Riemannian case of any signature [\textit{P. M. Gadea} and \textit{J. A. Oubiña}, Houston J. Math. 18, 449-465 (1992; Zbl 0760.53029)]. \textit{F. Tricerri} and \textit{L. Vanhecke} [`Homogeneous structures on Riemannian manifolds' (London. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 83, Cambridge University Press) (1983; Zbl 0509.53043)] used Ambrose-Singer's characterization to classify the homogeneous Riemannian structures into eight classes, which are defined by the invariant subspaces of a certain tensor space; in a similar way, in the paper under review the authors use their previous characterization to give a classification for the pseudo-Riemannian case of any signature into eight different classes. The three primitive classes are completely characterized in the paper. Moreover, some examples are discussed; in particular, the existence of homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian structures on certain solvable Lie groups equipped with left-invariant metrics of constant curvature, on the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group and on the 5-dimensional generalized Heisenberg group \(H(1,2)\) are considered.