Compact Lorentz manifolds with local symmetry

DOI10.4310/JDG/1231856264MaRDI QIDQ1004358zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Karin Melnick

Publication date 3 March 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610629, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1231856264

zbMATH Keywords

aspherical Lorentz manifoldsisometry group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

The author proves 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 fibres of a fiber bundle. A corollary is that if \(M\) has an open, dense, locally homogeneous subset, then \(M\) is locally homogeneous.

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