Metric Lie groups admitting dilations

DOI10.4310/ARKIV.2021.V59.N1.A5MaRDI QIDQ2032827zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Enrico Le Donne, Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo

Publication date 14 June 2021

Published in Arkiv för Matematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02559

zbMATH Keywords

dilationdistancehomothetymetric Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Special maps on metric spaces (54E40) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45)

Abstract: We consider left-invariant distances $d$ on a Lie group $G$ with the property that there exists a multiplicative one-parameter group of Lie automorphisms $(0,infty)ightarrowmathttAut(G)$, $lambdamapstodelt{a}_{l}ambda$, so that $d(delt{a}_{l}ambdax,delt{a}_{l}ambday)=lambdad(x,y)$, for all $x,yinG$ and all $lambda>0$. First, we show that all such distances are admissible, that is, they induce the manifold topology. Second, we characterize multiplicative one-parameter groups of Lie automorphisms that are dilations for some left-invariant distance in terms of algebraic properties of their infinitesimal generator. Third, we show that an admissible left-invariant distance on a Lie group with at least one nontrivial dilating automorphism is biLipschitz equivalent to one that admits a one-parameter group of dilating automorphisms. Moreover, the infinitesimal generator can be chosen to have spectrum in $[1,infty)$. Fourth, we characterize the automorphisms of a Lie group that are a dilating automorphisms for some admissible distance. Finally, we characterize metric Lie groups admitting a one-parameter group of dilating automorphisms as the only locally compact, isometrically homogeneous metric spaces with metric dilations of all factors. Such metric spaces appear as tangents of doubling metric spaces with unique tangents.

Review text

The authors study the interplay between left-invariant distances on Lie groups and multiplicative one-parameter groups of Lie automorphisms. If a distance~\(d\) admits such a group, say \(\langle\delta_\lambda:\lambda\in(0,\infty)\rangle\), with the property that one always has \(d(\delta_\lambda x,\delta_\lambda y)=\lambda d(x,y)\), then \(d\)~is admissible (determines the manifold topology). Conversely, there is a characterization of such groups that show the above behaviour with respect to some left-invariant distance.\par In addition admissible distances that admit at least one dilating automorphism are equivalent to distances that admit a group as above, and, conversely, there is a characterization of automorphisms that can be dilations with respect to an admissible distance.

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