Cohomogeneity two actions on flat Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10114-007-0952-6MaRDI QIDQ2463798zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Mirzaie

Publication date 6 December 2007

Published in Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10114-007-0952-6

zbMATH Keywords

cohomogeneityflat Riemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Review text

For \(n\geq0\) let \(M\) be a flat Riemannian \((n+2)\)-dimensional manifold with a connected closed group \(G\) of isometries such that the action of \(G\) on \(M\) has cohomogeneity two, in the sense that the dimension of every orbit of \(G\) is at most~\(n\). The main theorem of the paper under review says that if there exists at least one fixed point for \(G\), then \(G\) is compact and one of the following assertions holds: either \(M\) is isometric to \({\mathbb R}^{n+2}\) and the principal orbits are homogeneous hypersurfaces of spheres, or \(M\) is isometric to \({\mathbb R}^{n+2}/\Gamma\) for some subgroup \(\Gamma\) isomorphic to \({\mathbb Z}\) and every principal orbit is isometric to an \(n\)-dimensional sphere. In the first case the fixed-point set for \(G\) is either a singleton or homeomorphic to a line, while in the second case it is homeomorphic to a circle.

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