Homogeneous space with non-virtually abelian discontinuous groups but without any proper SL(2,R)-action

DOI10.1142/S0129167X1650018XMaRDI QIDQ2797902zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Takayuki Okuda

Publication date 1 April 2016

Published in International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02186

zbMATH Keywords

discontinuous grouphomogeneous space of reductive typeproper actionsymmetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Homogeneous spaces (22F30) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Abstract: In the study of discontinuous groups for non-Riemannian homogeneous spaces, the idea of "continuous analogue" gives a powerful method (T. Kobayashi [Math. Ann. 1989]). For example, a semisimple symmetric space G/H admits a discontinuous group which is not virtually abelian if and only if G/H admits a proper SL(2,R)-action (T. Okuda [J. Differential Geom. 2013]). However, the action of discrete subgroups is not always approximated by that of connected groups. In this paper, we show that the theorem cannot be extended to general homogeneous spaces G/H of reductive type. We give a counterexample in the case G = SL(5,R).

Review text

In previous work [J. Differ. Geom. 94, No. 2, 301--342 (2013; Zbl 1312.53076)], the author classified pseudo-Riemannian semisimple symmetric spaces \(G/H\) that admit a proper action of a three-dimensional simple subgroup of \(G\). Moreover, he showed that the existence of such an action is equivalent to the existence of a properly discontinuous action of a discrete, non-virtually abelian subgroup of \(G\).NEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper at hand the author shows that this theorem is not true without the assumption of \(G/H\) being symmetric, by giving an explicit example of a homogeneous space of \(\mathrm{SL}(5,\mathbb R)\) with a properly discontinuous action of a discrete, non-virtually abelian subgroup, but without any proper action of a three-dimensional simple subgroup of \(G\).

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