On the full holonomy group of Lorentzian manifolds (Q2509923)

The authors study the full holonomy group of Lorentzian manifolds with a parallel null line bundle, motivated by the previous classification of restricted holonomy groups of \(n\)-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds, already done by other authors one decade before. Based on the classification of the restricted holonomy groups of such manifolds, they prove several structure results about the full holonomy. The authors establish a construction method for manifolds with disconnected holonomy starting from a Riemannian manifold and a properly discontinuous group of isometries. This leads to a variety of examples, most of them being quotients of pp-waves with disconnected holonomy, including a non-flat Lorentzian manifold with infinitely generated holonomy group. They also classify the full holonomy groups of solvable Lorentzian symmetric spaces and of Lorentzian manifolds with a parallel null spinor. Examples of globally hyperbolic manifolds with complete spacelike Cauchy hypersurfaces, disconnected full holonomy and a parallel spinor are constructed. The paper has a well-written introduction, is structured in 7 sections and has a large number of references, cited inside the article, being very interesting for researchers working in the field.