Complex structures on affine motion groups

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAH013MaRDI QIDQ4676278zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. L. Barberis, I. G. Dotti

Publication date 3 May 2005

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0307375

zbMATH Keywords

affine groupscomplex structuresreal Lie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Other complex differential geometry (53C56)

Abstract: We study existence of complex structures on semidirect products $goplu{s}_{ho}v$ where $g$ is a real Lie algebra and $ho$ is a representation of $g$ on $v$. Our first examples, the Euclidean algebra $e(3)$ and the Poincar'e algebra $e(2,1)$, carry complex structures obtained by deformation of a regular complex structure on $sl(2,c)$. We also exhibit a complex structure on the Galilean algebra $G(3,1)$. We construct next a complex structure on $goplu{s}_{ho}v$ starting with one on $g$ under certain compatibility assumptions on $ho$. As an application of our results we obtain that there exists $kin0,1$ such that $(S^1{)}^{k}imesE(n)$ admits a left invariant complex structure, where $S^1$ is the circle and E(n) denotes the Euclidean group. We also prove that the Poincar'e group $P^{4k+3}$ has a natural left invariant complex structure. In case $dimg=dimv$, then there is an adapted complex structure on $goplu{s}_{ho}v$ precisely when $ho$ determines a flat, torsion-free connection on $g$. If $ho$ is self-dual, $goplu{s}_{ho}v$ carries a natural symplectic structure as well. If, moreover, $ho$ comes from a metric connection then $goplu{s}_{ho}v$ possesses a pseudo-K"ahler structure. We prove that the tangent bundle $TG$ of a Lie group $G$ carrying a flat torsion free connection $abla$ and a parallel complex structure possesses a hypercomplex structure. More generally, by an iterative procedure, we can obtain Lie groups carrying a family of left invariant complex structures which generate any prescribed real Clifford algebra.

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