Transitive actions on Lorentz manifolds with noncompact stabilizer (Q1397910)

If a topological group \(G\) acts on a topological space \(X\), then we say that the action is orbit nonproper provided that, for some \(x\in X\), the orbit map \(g\in G\to gx\in X\) is nonproper. We consider the problem of classifying the connected, simply connected real Lie groups \(G\) admitting a locally faithful, orbit nonproper, isometric action on a connected Lorentz manifold. In an earlier paper, we found three collections of groups such that \(G\) admits such an action iff \(G\) is in one of the three collections. In another paper, we effectively described the first collection. In this paper, we show that the second collection contains a small, effectively described collection of groups, and, aside from those, it is contained in the union of the first and third collections. Finally, in a third paper, we effectively describe the third collection, thus solving the stated problem.