Lattices in contact Lie groups and 5-dimensional contact solvmanifolds

DOI10.2996/KMJ/1426684452zbMATH Open1321.53096arXiv0904.3113OpenAlexW3100450984WikidataQ115224336 ScholiaQ115224336MaRDI QIDQ2345643FDOQ2345643

André Diatta, Brendan Foreman

Publication date: 22 May 2015

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3113

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zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupuniform latticecontact manifoldsolvmanifoldnilmanifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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