On solvable Lie groups of negative Ricci curvature

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Abstract: We consider the question of whether a given solvable Lie group admits a left-invariant metric of strictly negative Ricci curvature. We give necessary and sufficient conditions of the existence of such a metric for the Lie groups the nilradical of whose Lie algebra is either abelian or Heisenberg or standard filiform, and discuss some open questions.


In this paper necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the existence of a left-invariant metric of strictly negative Ricci curvature on solvable Lie groups with nilradical, whose Lie algebra is abelian or Heisenberg or is the standard filiform Lie algebra. For example, a solvable Lie algebra \(g\) with an abelian nilradical \(n\) admits an inner product of negative Ricci curvature if and only if there exists an element \(Y \in g\) such that all eigenvalues of the restriction of \(\text{ad}_Y\) to \(n\) have positive real parts.



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