Isometry groups of 4-dimensional nilpotent Lie groups

DOI10.1007/S10958-017-3488-ZMaRDI QIDQ2405144zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tijana Šukilović

Publication date 21 September 2017

Published in Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-017-3488-z

zbMATH Keywords

4-dimensional Lie groupinvariant pseudo-Riemannian metricinvariant Riemannian metricisometry groupnilpotent Lie algebranilpotent Lie groupWalker metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Review text

A complete description of the isometry groups of left invariant metrics on 4-dimensional simply connected nilpotent Lie groups \(N\) is given. There are only two nonabelian 4-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras - 2-nilpotent \(n_3\oplus \mathbf R\) and 3-nilpotent \(n_4\). Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian invariant metrics on the corresponding Lie groups \(N_3\times \mathbf R\) are \(N_4\) are described. Two geometrically distinct cases of degenerate and nondegenerate center of the Lie group \(N\) are considered separately. The special case of Walker metrics (which have nontrivial totally isotropic parallel distributions) is investigated.

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