The homogeneous geometries of real hyperbolic space

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Deformations of general structures on manifolds (58H15)

Abstract: We describe the holonomy algebras of all canonical connections of homogeneous structures on real hyperbolic spaces in all dimensions. The structural results obtained then lead to a determination of the types, in the sense of Tricerri and Vanhecke, of the corresponding homogeneous tensors. We use our analysis to show that the moduli space of homogeneous structures on real hyperbolic space has two connected components.

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A fundamental problem in Riemannian homogeneous spaces is whether a Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) can admit several different descriptions as homogeneous space \(G/H\). In the work [Duke Math. J. 25, 647--669 (1958; Zbl 0134.17802)], \textit{W. Ambrose} and \textit{I. M. Singer} made a substantial attempt to solve this problem and in [Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser., 83 (1983; Zbl 0509.53043)], \textit{F. Tricerri} and \textit{L. Vanhecke} investigated further this problem. A problem they had left open was the determination of all homogeneous tensors on the real hyperbolic space \(\mathbb{R}H(n)\) for \(n\geq 3\). In the present paper, the authors answer the question for the holonomy algebras of the canonical connections on \(\mathbb{R}H(n)\). They prove the following theorem: The holonomy algebras of canonical connections on \(\mathbb{R}H(n)\) are \(\mathfrak{so}(n)\) and all the reductive algebras \(\mathfrak{k}=\mathfrak{k}_0+\mathfrak{k}_{ss}\) of compact type with \(\mathfrak{k}_0\cong\mathbb{R}^r\) abelian and \(\mathfrak{k}_{ss}\) semisimple such that \(3r+\text{dim}\mathfrak{k}_{ss}\leq n-1\).

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