The local geometry of compact homogeneous Lorentz spaces

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2014.12.007zbMATH Open1309.53042arXiv1502.02622OpenAlexW2034593387WikidataQ125768015 ScholiaQ125768015MaRDI QIDQ2255877FDOQ2255877

Felix Günther

Publication date: 18 February 2015

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

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.

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)

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