Lichnerowicz-Obata conjecture in dimension two

DOI10.4171/CMH/25MaRDI QIDQ2388657zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 15 September 2005

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/CMH/25

zbMATH Keywords

Dini's theoremgeodesic and projective transformationsgeodesically equivalent metricsintegrable systemsLichnerowicz-Obata conjectureLiouville metricsquadratically integrable geodesic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Rigidity results (53C24)

Review text

The results of the paper under review concerns the Lichnerowicz-Obata conjecture: Let a connected Lie group \(G\) act on a complete connected Riemannian manifold \((M^{n},g)\) of dimension \(n \geq 2\) by projective transformations. Then it acts by affine transformations (i.e., the action of the group preserves the Levi-Civita connection), or \(g\) has constant nonnegative curvature. More precisely, the \(2\)-dimensional case of that conjecture is considered. The main result of the paper is the following theorem: Let a connected Lie group \(G\) act on a complete connected Riemannian surface \((M^{2},g)\) by projective transformations. Then it acts by isometries, or \(g\) has constant nonnegative curvature. Recently, the author also proved the multidimensional version of the Lichnerowicz-Obata conjecture [see \textit{V. S. Matveev}, J. Differ. Geom. 75, 459--502 (2007; Zbl 1115.53029)].

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