Commutative Spaces Which are Not Weakly Symmetric

DOI10.1112/S0024609397003925MaRDI QIDQ4354187zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jorge Lauret

Publication date 14 September 1997

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/S0024609397003925

zbMATH Keywords

differential operatorsnilpotent Lie groupsRiemannian homogeneous spaceRiemannian manifoldsymmetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30) (L^1)-algebras on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A20) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Review text

A connected Riemannian manifold \(M\) is said to be weakly symmetric if for any two points \(p,q\in M\) there exists an isometry of \(M\) mapping \(p\) to \(q\) and \(q\) to \(p\). This notion was introduced by \textit{A. Selberg} in [J. Indian Math. Soc., n. Ser. 20, 47--87 (1956; Zbl 0072.08201)]. This is not the original definition given by Selberg, but is equivalent to it [see \textit{J. Berndt} and \textit{L. Vanhecke}, J. Math. Soc. Japan 48, 745--760 (1996: Zbl 0877.53027)]. It is easy to see that any symmetric space is weakly symmetric. A commutative space is a Riemannian homogeneous space such that the algebra of all \(G\)-invariant (where \(G\) is the connected component of the full isometry group) differential operators is commutative. \textit{I. M. Gelfand} [Transl., II. Ser., Am. Math. Soc. 37, 39--43 (1964); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 70, 5--8 (1950; Zbl 0139.07701)] has proved that any Riemannian symmetric space is commutative. \textit{A. Selberg} [op. cit.] proved that in any weakly symmetric space the algebra of all invariant (with respect to the full isometry group) differential operators is commutative. In this paper Selberg remarks that he does not know whether the converse holds. In the present work we answer Selberg's question by representing examples of commutative spaces which are not weakly symmetric. In order to construct this family of examples we study certain modified \(H\)-type metrics on 2-step nilpotent Lie groups.

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