Graphs and metric 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras

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Abstract: Dani and Mainkar introduced a method for constructing a 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra mathfraknG from a simple directed graph G in 2005. There is a natural inner product on mathfraknG arising from the construction. We study geometric properties of the associated simply connected 2-step nilpotent Lie group N with Lie algebra mathfraknG. We classify singularity properties of the Lie algebra mathfraknG in terms of the graph G. A comprehensive description is given of graphs G which give rise to Heisenberg-like Lie algebras. Conditions are given on the graph G and on a lattice GammasubseteqN for which the quotient , a compact nilmanifold, has a dense set of smoothly closed geodesics.









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