A criterion for global hyperbolicity of left-invariant Lorentz metrics on Lie groups

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2007.09.010MaRDI QIDQ2474526zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mohammed Guediri

Publication date 6 March 2008

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2007.09.010

zbMATH Keywords

global hyperbolicityleft-invariant Lorentz metrics on Lie groupLorentzian submersions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Review text

The author gives a criterion for a left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metric on a Lie group to be globally hyperbolic. The author shows that if a non-abelian connected and simply connected Lie group \(G\) with Lie algebra \(\mathcal{G}\) endowed with a left-invariant Lorentz metric \(\langle\;,\;\rangle\) whose restriction to the commutator ideal \(\mathcal{G}'\) is positive definite, then the space-time \((G,\langle\;,\;\rangle)\) is globally hyperbolic. Finally, the author focuses on a specific case of Lie group, namely, Heisenberg group \(H_{2n+1}\) and proves that if the restriction of \(\langle\;,\;\rangle\) to the center of \(H_{3}\) is degenerate, then the space-time \((H_{3},\langle\;,\;\rangle)\) is globally hyperbolic.

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