Strongly solvable spaces

DOI10.1215/00127094-2861277MaRDI QIDQ2263803zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Jablonski

Publication date 19 March 2015

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5660, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1422627051

zbMATH Keywords

Alekseevsky conjectureisometry groupssolvable Lie groupssolvmanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: This work builds on the foundation laid by Gordon and Wilson in the study of isometry groups of solvmanifolds, i.e. Riemannian manifolds admitting a transitive solvable group of isometries. We restrict ourselves to a natural class of solvable Lie groups called almost completely solvable; this class includes the completely solvable Lie groups. When the commutator subalgebra contains the center, we have a complete description of the isometry group of any left-invariant metric using only metric Lie algebra information. Using our work on the isometry group of such spaces, we study quotients of solvmanifolds. Our first application is to the classification of homogeneous Ricci soliton metrics. We show that the verification of the Generalized Alekseevsky Conjecture reduces to the simply-connected case. Our second application is a generalization of a result of Heintze on the rigidity of existence of compact quotients for certain homogeneous spaces. Heintze's result applies to spaces with negative curvature. We remove all the geometric requirements, replacing them with algebraic requirements on the homogeneous structure.

Review text

This paper is devoted to the study of the actions by isometries on solvmanifolds. The author proves that the isometry group is linear for an admissible completely solvable Lie group equipped with a left-invariant metric. Moreover a procedure for getting this isometry group is given. Equivalent conditions for the existence of compact quotients are found, once we start with a simply connected almost completely solvable positive Lie group \(S\) equipped with a left invariant metric \(g\): \(S\) is unimodular; \((S,g)\) is symmetric. Examples arise from solvable Lie groups admitting an Einstein metric. The paper is very clear, well motivated and advances and relations towards the proof of the Alekseevsky conjecture are shown.

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