The homogeneous geometries of real hyperbolic space (Q1949862)

A fundamental problem in Riemannian homogeneous spaces is whether a Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) can admit several different descriptions as homogeneous space \(G/H\). In the work [Duke Math. J. 25, 647--669 (1958; Zbl 0134.17802)], \textit{W. Ambrose} and \textit{I. M. Singer} made a substantial attempt to solve this problem and in [Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser., 83 (1983; Zbl 0509.53043)], \textit{F. Tricerri} and \textit{L. Vanhecke} investigated further this problem. A problem they had left open was the determination of all homogeneous tensors on the real hyperbolic space \(\mathbb{R}H(n)\) for \(n\geq 3\). In the present paper, the authors answer the question for the holonomy algebras of the canonical connections on \(\mathbb{R}H(n)\). They prove the following theorem: The holonomy algebras of canonical connections on \(\mathbb{R}H(n)\) are \(\mathfrak{so}(n)\) and all the reductive algebras \(\mathfrak{k}=\mathfrak{k}_0+\mathfrak{k}_{ss}\) of compact type with \(\mathfrak{k}_0\cong\mathbb{R}^r\) abelian and \(\mathfrak{k}_{ss}\) semisimple such that \(3r+\text{dim}\mathfrak{k}_{ss}\leq n-1\).