The local geometry of compact homogeneous Lorentz spaces

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2014.12.007MaRDI QIDQ2255877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Felix Günther

Publication date 18 February 2015

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02622

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvatureisometry groupsLorentz geometryhomogeneous Lorentz spacestwisted Heisenberg group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: In 1995, S. Adams and G. Stuck as well as A. Zeghib independently provided a classification of non-compact Lie groups which can act isometrically and locally effectively on compact Lorentzian manifolds. In the case that the corresponding Lie algebra contains a direct summand isomorphic to the two-dimensional special linear algebra or to a twisted Heisenberg algebra, Zeghib also described the geometric structure of the manifolds. Using these results, we investigate the local geometry of compact homogeneous Lorentz spaces whose isometry groups have non-compact connected components. It turns out that they all are reductive. We investigate the isotropy representation and curvatures. In particular, we obtain that any Ricci-flat compact homogeneous Lorentz space is flat or has compact isometry group.

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