On cohomogeneity one flat Riemannian manifolds (Q4551973)

A complete Riemannian manifold \(M\) of dimension \(n\) is called cohomogeneity one under an action of a Lie group \(G\) of isometries of \(M\) (\(G\) is assumed to be closed in \(Iso( M) \)) if \(G\) has an orbit of codimension one. The space of orbits \(M/G\) can be homeomorphic to \(\mathbb{R} \), \(S^{1}\), \(\mathbb{R}^{+}=[0,\infty)\) or \(\left[ 0,1\right] \) only. The orbit \(D\) is called principal (singular) if the corresponding image in \(M/G\) is an internal (boundary) point. The authors study flat cohomogeneity one manifolds \(M.\) The main result is: Let \(M=\mathbb{R}^{n}\) be of cohomogeneity one under the action of a connected Lie group \(G\subset\text{Iso}( \mathbb{R}^{n})\). Then either each principal orbit is isometric to \(\mathbb{R} ^{n-1}\) and there is no singular orbit or each principal orbit is isometric to \(S^{k}( c) \times\mathbb{R}^{n-k-1},\) \(1\leq k\leq n-1,\) \(k\) is fixed for all orbits, and the unique singular orbit is isometric to \(\mathbb{R}^{n-k-1}\). Using the universal covering \(\tilde{M}\rightarrow M\), consequences of this theorem to arbitrary orientable cohomogeneity one flat Riemannian manifolds are given. For example, there is at most one singular orbit. The cases of unique or no singular orbits are considered.