Compact Lorentz manifolds with local symmetry (Q1004358)

The author proves a structure theorem for compact aspherical Lorentz manifolds with abundant local symmetry. If \(M\) is a compact, aspherical, real-analytic, complete Lorentz manifold such that the isometry group of the universal cover has semisimple identity component, then the local isometry orbits in \(M\) are roughly fibres of a fiber bundle. A corollary is that if \(M\) has an open, dense, locally homogeneous subset, then \(M\) is locally homogeneous.