On left-invariant Einstein Riemannian metrics that are not geodesic orbit

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Abstract: In this paper we prove that the compact Lie group G2 admits a left-invariant Einstein metric that is not geodesic orbit. In order to prove the required assertion, we develop some special tools for geodesic orbit Riemannian manifolds. It should be noted that a suitable metric is discovered in a recent paper by I. Chrysikos and Y. Sakane, where the authors proved also that this metric is not naturally reductive.


A Riemannian homogeneous space \((G/H,g)\) with isometry group \(G\) is called a geodesic orbit space, if every geodesic in \((G/H,g)\) is induced from a one-parameter subgroup of \(G\). Many examples of homogeneous spaces are geodesic orbit spaces, e.g., symmetric spaces, isotropy irreducible spaces, and normal homogeneous spaces of compact Lie groups. The main result of the paper under review gives an example of a left-invariant Einstein metric on the exceptional compact Lie group \(G_2\) which is not a geodesic orbit metric. Moreover, geodesic orbit metrics on generic Aloff-Wallach spaces are classified.



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