On cohomogeneity one linear actions on pseudo-Euclidean space R^p , q

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2019.101584MaRDI QIDQ2304646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors S. Safari, Parviz Ahmadi

Publication date 13 March 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05083

zbMATH Keywords

cohomogeneity oneisometric actionpseudo-Euclidean space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20)

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study cohomogeneity one isometric linear actions on the $p+q$-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space $mathbb{R}^{p,q}$. It is proved that the natural isometric action of the nilpotent factor of an Iwasawa decomposition of $SO(p,q)$ is not of cohomogeneity one. The orbits of cohomogeneity one actions of some subgroups of a maximal parabolic subgroup of the isometry group of $mathbb{R}^{p,q}$ are determined and it is proved that there exist cohomogeneity one isometric actions on $mathbb{R}^{p,q}$ which are orbit-equivalent on the complement of a $p$-dimensional degenerate subspace $mathbb{W}^p$ of $mathbb{R}^{p,q}$ and not orbit-equivalent on $mathbbWp$.

Review text

In this article, the authors study the natural actions of some (noncompact) subgroups of \( SO(p,q) \) (matrices preserving the quadratic form of signature \( p,q \ (p\geq q)\)) on \( \mathbb{R}^{p+q} \). The case \( q=1 \) has been investigated in [\textit{J. Berndt} et al., Monatsh. Math. 184, No. 2, 185--200 (2017; Zbl 1379.53091)]. In this article, similar results are obtained for \( q>1 \). All orbits of this cohomogeniety one action are found. A decomposition of the subgroup \( Q \) leaving a certain subspace invariant is determined. Restricted actions to a certain class of subgroups of \( Q \) are studied in detail. The authors prove that the actions of these subgroups are also of cohomogeniety one and all their orbits are determined. It is shown that, when \( p>q+1\geq2 \), the orbits outside a certain subspace (\( \mathbb{W} \) of dimension \( p \)) are independent of the acting group (in this class) but the orbits of points in \( \mathbb{W} \) depend on the acting group as in [loc. cit.].

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