On the geodesic orbit property for Lorentz manifolds

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00744-8MaRDI QIDQ2074718zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhiqi Chen, Joseph A. Wolf, Shaoxiang Zhang

Publication date 10 February 2022

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06054

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic orbit spaceLorentz nilmanifoldnaturally reductive spacepseudo-Riemannian manifoldweakly symmetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie algebras of Lie groups (22E60) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: The geodesic orbit property has been studied intensively for Riemannian manifolds. Geodesic orbit spaces are homogeneous and allow simplifications of many structural questions using the Lie algebra of the isometry group. Weakly symmetric Riemannian manifolds are geodesic orbit spaces. Here we define "naturally reductive" for pseudo-Riemannian manifolds and note that they are geodesic orbit spaces. A few years ago two of the authors proved that weakly symmetric pseudo-Riemannian manifolds are geodesic orbit spaces. In particular these results apply to pseudo-Riemannian Lorentz manifolds. There our main results are Theorems 4.2 and 5.1. In the Riemannian case the nilpotent isometry group for a geodesic orbit nilmanifold is abelian or $2$-step nilpotent. Examples show that this fails dramatically in the pseudo-Riemannian case. Here we concentrate on the geodesic orbit property for Lorentz nilmanifolds $G/H$ with $G=NtimesH$ and $N$ nilpotent. When the metric is nondegenerate on $[mathfrakn,mathfrakn]$, Theorem 4.2 shows that $N$ either is at most $2$-step nilpotent as in the Riemannian situation, or is $4$-step nilpotent, but cannot be $3$-step nilpotent. Examples show that these bounds are the best possible. Surprisingly, Theorem 5.1 shows that $N$ is at most $2$-step nilpotent when the metric is degenerate on $[mathfrakn,mathfrakn]$. Both theorems give additional structural information and specialize to naturally reductive and to weakly symmetric Lorentz nilmanifolds. Key Words: Geodesic Orbit Space; Lorentz nilmanifold; Weakly Symmetric Space; Naturally Reductive Space; Pseudo-Riemannian Manifold.

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