Homogeneous spaces of nonreductive type that do not model any compact manifold

DOI10.4171/PRIMS/53-2-3MaRDI QIDQ2360102zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yosuke Morita

Publication date 23 June 2017

Published in Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04862

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford-Klein formdiscrete subgroup of Lie grouphomogeneous spacelocal modelrelative Lie algebra cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56) Homogeneous spaces (22F30) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Abstract: We give necessary conditions for the existence of a compact manifold locally modelled on a given homogeneous space, which generalize some earlier results, in terms of relative Lie algebra cohomology. Applications include both reductive and nonreductive cases. For example, we prove that there does not exist a compact manifold locally modelled on a positive dimensional coadjoint orbit of a real linear solvable algebraic group.

Review text

A necessary condition in terms of relative Lie algebra cohomology for the existence of a compact manifold, locally modelled on a given homogeneous space, is proved. It generalizes some earlier results. This result has the following equivalent form: Let \(G\) be a Lie group and \(H\) its closed subgroup with finitely many connected components. Let \(n_g(h)\) denote the normalizer of \(h\) in \(g\). Then if for the \(h\)-action on \(g/h\) we have \(\mathrm{tr}(\mathrm{ad}_{\mathrm g}/h(X)) = 0\) for all \(X \in h\) and the \(n_g(h)\)-action on \(g/h\) is not trace-free, there is no compact manifold locally modelled on \(G/H\). Several examples of applications for reductive and nonreductive cases are given.

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