On low-dimensional manifolds with isometric SO₀(p, q)-actions

DOI10.1007/S00031-012-9194-5MaRDI QIDQ1928552zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Raul Quiroga-Barranco, Gestur Ólafsson

Publication date 3 January 2013

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0704

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic double cosetspseudo-Riemannian manifoldsrigidity of actionsZimmer's program

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Let $G$ be a non-compact simple Lie group with Lie algebra $mathfrakg$. Denote with $m(mathfrakg)$ the dimension of the smallest non-trivial $mathfrakg$-module with an invariant non-degenerate symmetric bilinear form. For an irreducible finite volume pseudo-Riemannian analytic manifold $M$ it is observed that $dim(M)geqdim(G)+m(mathfrakg)$ when $M$ admits an isometric $G$-action with a dense orbit. The Main Theorem considers the case $G=widetilde{mathrmSO}_0(p,q)$ providing an explicit description of $M$ when the bound is achieved. In such case, $M$ is (up to a finite covering) the quotient by a lattice of either $widetilde{mathrmSO}_0(p+1,q)$ or $widetilde{mathrmSO}_0(p,q+1)$.

Review text

R. Zimmer's program concerns the relationship between the structure of the fundamental group of a manifold and that of the automorphism group of a geometric structure on the manifold. Gromov introduced the notion of rigid geometric structures and proved several deep results which have had strong influence on the geometry and dynamics of group actions. This paper deals with the pseudo-Riemannian setting of Zimmer's program. More specifically, let \(G\) be a non-compact connected simple Lie group acting by isometries on a connected analytic pseudo-Riemannian manifold \(M\) with finite volume. The authors observe that in case \(M\) is complete and weakly irreducible with non-transitive \(G\)-action but with a dense orbit, the dimension of~\(M\) is bounded from below by \(\dim G+m(\mathfrak g),\) where \(m(\mathfrak g)\) denotes the smallest dimension of a non-trivial representation of the Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\) of \(G\) that admits a non-degenerate symmetric invariant bilinear form. In the special case of \(G\) being the universal cover of \(\mathrm{SO}_0(p,q)\) with \(p+q\geq5\), \(p\), \(q\geq1\), they prove rigidity in case the bound is attained, namely, up to a finite covering \(M\) is a quotient of either \(\mathrm{SO}_0(p+1,q)\) or \(\mathrm{SO}_0(p,q+1)\). The action comes from a non-trivial homomorphism and the pseudo-Riemannian is essentially the Killing form.

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