Chern-Simons forms of pseudo-Riemannian homogeneity on the oscillator group

DOI10.1155/S0161171203210164MaRDI QIDQ1415152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors P. M. Gadea, J. A. Oubiña

Publication date 3 December 2003

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/51016

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous spacesecondary cohomology classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Review text

The authors compute the Chern-Simons forms for left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on the 4-dimensional oscillator group. The corresponding secondary cohomology classes measure how far a homogeneous space is from being locally symmetric. In the paper these classes are computed for certain compact quotients of the oscillator group by discrete subgroups. For a particular choice of parameters the classes vanish.

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