Lorentz geometry of 2-step nilpotent Lie groups

DOI10.1023/A:1025832108196MaRDI QIDQ1412310zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mohammed Guediri

Publication date 10 November 2003

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025832108196

zbMATH Keywords

2-step nilpotent Lie groupsclosed timelike geodesicsleft-invariant Lorentz metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Review text

The paper studies the differential geometry of 2-step nilpotent Lie groups endowed with left-invariant Lorentz metrics. The author focuses on the explicit integration of the geodesic equation. New results establishing the existence of closed timelike geodesics in Lorentz 2-step nilmanifolds are obtained.

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