Reductive homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2022.101932MaRDI QIDQ2168664zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ioannis Chrysikos, Dmitri Alekseevsky, Anton Galaev

Publication date 26 August 2022

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13433

zbMATH Keywords

admissible subgroupscontact homogeneous manifoldsLorentz algebrareductive homogeneous Lorentzian manifoldstotally reducible subalgebras of the Lorentz algebraWolf spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We study homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds $M=G/L$ of a connected reductive Lie group $G$ modulo a connected reductive subgroup $L$, under the assumption that $M$ is (almost) $G$-effective and the isotropy representation is totally reducible. We show that the description of such manifolds reduces to the case of semisimple Lie groups $G$. Moreover, we prove that such a homogeneous space is reductive. We describe all totally reducible subgroups of the Lorentz group and divide them into three types. The subgroups of Type I are compact, while the subgroups of Type II and Type III are non-compact. The explicit description of the corresponding homogeneous Lorentzian spaces of Type II and III (under some mild assumption) is given. We also show that the description of Lorentz homogeneous manifolds $M=G/L$ of Type I, reduces to the description of subgroups $L$ such that $M=G/L$ is an admissible manifold, i.e., an effective homogeneous manifold that admits an invariant Lorentzian metric. Whenever the subgroup $L$ is a maximal subgroup with these properties, we call such a manifold minimal admissible. We classify all minimal admissible homogeneous manifolds $G/L$ of a compact semisimple Lie group $G$ and describe all invariant Lorentzian metrics on them.

Review text

In this paper, the authors study homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds \(M\) that can be obtained as a quotient of a connected reductive Lie group \(G\) modulo a connected reductive subgroup \(L\), under the additional assumption that \(M\) is (almost) \(G\)-effective and the isotropy representation is totally reducible. It turns out that it is sufficient to consider the case of semisimple Lie groups \(G\) and all such manifolds \(M\) are then reductive. The authors classify all possible totally reducible subgroups of the Lorentz group and divide them into three types. The subgroups of Type I are compact, while the subgroups of Type II and Type III are non-compact. The explicit description of the corresponding homogeneous Lorentzian spaces of Type II and III is given. In the second part of the paper the authors study what they call admissible manifolds. These are effective homogeneous manifolds \(M=G/L\) that admit an invariant Lorentzian metric. They also call such manifolds minimal admissible if \(L\) is a maximal subgroup with these properties. The authors classify all minimal admissible homogeneous manifolds \(G/L\) of a compact semisimple Lie group \(G\) and describe all invariant Lorentzian metrics on them.

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