Lattices in contact Lie groups and 5-dimensional contact solvmanifolds

DOI10.2996/KMJ/1426684452MaRDI QIDQ2345643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors André Diatta, Brendan Foreman

Publication date 22 May 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3113, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.kmj/1426684452

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldHeisenberg groupnilmanifoldsolvmanifolduniform lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: This paper investigates the geometry of compact contact manifolds that are uniformized by contact Lie groups, i.e., compact manifolds that are the quotient of some Lie group G with a left invariant contact structure and a uniform lattice subgroup. We re-examine Alexander's criteria for existence of lattices on solvable Lie groups and apply them, along with some other well known tools, and use these results to prove that, in dimension 5, there are exactly seven connected and simply connected contact Lie groups with uniform lattices, all of which are solvable. Issues of symplectic boundaries are explored, as well. It is also shown that the special affine group has no uniform lattice.

Review text

This paper proves that in dimension 5 there are exactly seven connected and simply connected contact Lie groups with uniform lattices. Five are Lie groups \(G\) which are central extensions of a solvable symplectic Lie group with a lattice that extends to \(G\). These are the 5-dimensional Heisenberg group, \(\mathrm{Heis}^5\), \((\mathrm{Heis}^3\times {\mathbb R})\times_{\omega_2}{\mathbb R}\) where \(\omega_2\) is the symplectic form on \(\mathrm{Heis}^3\times {\mathbb R}\), and \(B_j\times_{\omega_j}{\mathbb R}\) (\(j=3,4,5)\) where \(\omega_j\) is the symplectic form on the semi-direct product \(B_j={\mathbb R}^3\rtimes_{F_j}{\mathbb R}\) with \(F_j:{\mathbb R}\longrightarrow \mathrm{GL}(3,{\mathbb R})\) given by three particular but natural matrices. The remaining two cases are semi-direct products \({\mathbb R}^3\rtimes_{b_i}{\mathbb R}^2\) \((i=1,2)\) with \(b_i:{\mathbb R}\longrightarrow \mathrm{GL}(3,{\mathbb R})\) given by two particular matrices. In [Differ. Geom. Appl. 26, No. 5, 544--552 (2008; Zbl 1152.53064)] the first author classified 5-dimensional simply connected contact Lie groups. Using this classification, the authors of the present paper determined which ones admit uniform lattices and which ones do not.

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