Geodesics in generalized Wallach spaces

DOI10.1007/S00022-015-0268-0MaRDI QIDQ895724zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos, Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

Publication date 4 December 2015

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04279

zbMATH Keywords

generalized flag manifoldgeneralized Wallach spacegeodesicgeodesic orbit spacehomogeneous spaceisotropy representationStiefel manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: We study geodesics in generalized Wallach spaces which are expressed as orbits of products of three exponential terms. These are homogeneous spaces $M=G/K$ whose isotropy representation decomposes into a direct sum of three submodules $frakm=frak{m}_{1}oplusfrak{m}_{2}oplusfrak{m}_3$, satisfying the relations $[frak{m}_i,frak{m}_i]subsetfrakk$. Assuming that the submodules $frak{m}_i$ are pairwise non isomorphic, we study geodesics on such spaces of the form $gamma(t)=exp(tX)exp(tY)exp(tZ)cdoto$, where $Xinfr{m}_1,Yinfr{m}_2,Zinfr{m}_3$ ($o=eK$), with respect to a $G$-invariant metric. Our investigation imposes certain restrictions on the $G$-invariant metric, so the geodesics turn out to be orbits of two exponential terms. We give a point of view using Riemannian submersions. As an application, we describe geodesics in generalized flag manifolds with three isotropy summands and with second Betti number $b_2(M)=2$, and in the Stiefel manifolds $SO(n+2)/S(n)$. We relate our results to geodesic orbit spaces (g.o. spaces).

Review text

The authors study certain geodesics of some special form in a generalized Wallach space. They also discuss the extension of their considerations to more general homogeneous spaces.

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