Bounded isometries and homogeneous Riemannian quotient manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF00147527MaRDI QIDQ1076352zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Isabel Dotti Miatello, R. J. Miatello, Joseph A. Wolf

Publication date 1986

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00147527

zbMATH Keywords

bounded isometriesClifford translationhomogeneous manifoldsisometry groupsemisimple Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Review text

Let M be a connected homogeneous Riemannian manifold admitting a properly discontinuous group action \(\Gamma\) of isometries. In a variety of cases, it is well-known that the conditions: \(\Gamma\) is a group of Clifford translation and \(\bar M=\Gamma/M\) is a homogeneous Riemannian manifold are equivalent. Let G' be a connected semisimple Lie group without compact local factors and let G' act transitively and effectively on M by isometries. Regarding this \(G'\) as a subgroup of the isometry group \(I(M)\), let B be the centralizer of G' in \(I(M)\). Then B is the set of all bounded isometries of M. In particular, every bounded isometry of M is a Clifford translation. Next, if G is the closure of \(G'\) in \(I(M)\), then G is a connected reductive Lie subgroup of \(I(M)\) and \(G'\) is its derived group. For the isotropy subgroup \(H=\{g\in G;\) \(gx_ 0=x_ 0,\) \(x_ 0\in M\},\) let its normalizer in G be denoted by \(N_ G(H)\), and set \(R(U):\{gH\to gu^{-1}H,\) \(u\in N_ G(H)\}.\) Then \(R(U)\) is the set of all bounded isometries of M. On the basis of these two facts the author proves that the two conditions introduced above are equivalent if M admits a transitive semisimple group of isometries that has no compact local factor.

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