Quasihomogeneous three-dimensional real-analytic Lorentz metrics do not exist (Q897079)

A pseudo-Riemannian metric is called quasihomogeneous if it is locally homogeneous on an open set containing the origin in its closure, but not locally homogeneous. The authors prove that any locally homogeneous real-analytic Lorentz metrics on a nontrivial open subset of a connected neighborhood \(U\) of the origin in \(\mathbb R^3\) is locally homogeneous in the entire \(U\). This result improves the one in [the first author, Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 28, No. 4, 1091--1116 (2008; Zbl 1151.53350)] by simplifying methods and thus dropping a compactness condition.