The shear construction

DOI10.1007/S10711-018-0330-9MaRDI QIDQ1737573zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Freibert, Andrew Swann

Publication date 23 April 2019

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05318

zbMATH Keywords

calibrated and cocalibrated \(G_2\)-structuresgeneralization of twist constructionsolvable Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Duality theorems for analytic spaces (32C37) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: The twist construction is a method to build new interesting examples of geometric structures with torus symmetry from well-known ones. In fact it can be used to construct arbitrary nilmanifolds from tori. In our previous paper, we presented a generalization of the twist, a shear construction of rank one, which allowed us to build certain solvable Lie algebras from $mathbb{R}^n$ via several shears. Here, we define the higher rank version of this shear construction using vector bundles with flat connections instead of group actions. We show that this produces any solvable Lie algebra from $mathbb{R}^n$ by a succession of shears. We give examples of the shear and discuss in detail how one can obtain certain geometric structures (calibrated $mathrm{G}_2$, co-calibrated $mathrm{G}_2$ and almost semi-K"ahler) on two-step solvable Lie algebras by shearing almost Abelian Lie algebras. This discussion yields a classification of calibrated $mathrm{G}_2$-structures on Lie algebras of the form $(mathfrak{h}_{3}oplusmathbb{R}^3)timesmathbbR$.

Review text

The twist construction is a method to build new examples of geometric structures with torus symmetry from well-known ones. It can be used to construct arbitrary nilmanifolds from tori. In a previous work by the authors [J. Geom. Phys. 106, 268--274 (2016; Zbl 1341.53054)], they presented a generalization of the twist, a shear construction of rank one, which allows to build certain solvable Lie algebras from \(\mathbb{R}^n\) via several shears. In the present paper, they define higher-rank version of this shear construction using vector bundles with flat connections instead of group actions. They show that this produces any solvable Lie algebra from \(\mathbb{R}^n\) by a succession of shears. They give examples of the shear and discuss in detail how one can obtain certain geometric structures (calibrated \(G_2\), co-calibrated \(G_2\) and almost semi-Kähler) on three-step solvable Lie algebras by shearing almost abelian Lie algebras. This discussion yields a classification of calibrated \(G_2\)-structures on Lie algebras of the form \((\mathfrak{h}_3\oplus \mathbb{R}^3)\rtimes\mathbb{R}\).

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