Compact Lorentz manifolds with local symmetry

DOI10.4310/JDG/1231856264zbMATH Open1167.53061arXivmath/0610629OpenAlexW1963265843WikidataQ115172245 ScholiaQ115172245MaRDI QIDQ1004358FDOQ1004358

Authors: Karin Melnick 

Publication date: 3 March 2009

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a structure theorem for compact aspherical Lorentz manifolds with abundant local symmetry. If M is a compact, aspherical, real-analytic, complete Lorentz manifold such that the isometry group of the universal cover has semisimple identity component, then the local isometry orbits in M are roughly fibers of a fiber bundle. A corollary is that if M has a dense local isometry orbit then M is locally homogeneous. The main result is analogous to a theorem of Farb and Weinberger on compact aspherical Riemannian manifolds, and an exposition of their arguments on rational cohomological dimension is included. Some aspects of dynamics on Lorentz manifolds are also presented, including totally geodesic, lightlike, codimension-one foliations associated to unbounded sequences of isometries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610629

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zbMATH Keywords

isometry groupaspherical Lorentz manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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