Five-dimensional paracontact Lie algebras (Q5964091)

It is a natural problem to determine the homogeneous models of paracontact metric structures of a given dimension, classifying invariant paracontact metric structures on odd-dimensional homogeneous manifolds. Three-dimensional homogeneous paracontact metric manifolds were classified in [the first author, Ill. J. Math. 55, No. 2, 697--718 (2011; Zbl 1273.53020)]. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the five-dimensional case, starting from left-invariant paracontact metric structures on five-dimensional Lie algebras. The authors give a complete classification of five-dimensional paracontact Lie algebras with non-trivial center (necessarily \(K\)-paracontact), specifying which examples are para-Sasakian and which ones do not admit any para-Sasakian structure. Examples with trivial center, both K-paracontact and non K-paracontact, are explicitly discussed and classified.