Indefinite nilsolitons and Einstein solvmanifolds (Q2074729)

This paper is devoted to the study of indefinite nilsolitons and Einstein solvmanifolds, and the relation between them. Recall that a Riemannian solvmanifold can be defined as a solvable Lie group endowed with a left-invariant Riemannian metric and that a nilsoliton is a nilpotent Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) with a metric such that \(\operatorname{Ric} = \lambda\operatorname{Id}+D\), where \(D\) is a derivation. For indefinite metrics, this determines four different geometries, depending on whether \(\lambda\) and \(D\) are zero or not. The authors illustrate with examples the greater flexibility of the indefinite case compared to the Riemannian setting. They also determine algebraic properties that \(D\) must satisfy in the case where it is not zero. For each of the four geometries, the authors show that under suitable conditions it is possible to extend the nilsoliton metric to an Einstein solvmanifold of the form \(\mathfrak{g}\rtimes\mathbb{R}^k\). Conversely, they introduce a large class of indefinite Einstein solvmanifolds of the form \(\mathfrak{g}\rtimes\mathbb{R}^k\) that determine a nilsoliton metric on \(\mathfrak{g}\) by resptriction. They also show with examples that, unlike in the Riemannian setting, one cannot establish a correspondence between the full classes of Einstein solvmanifolds and nilsolitons.