A note on the uniqueness of the canonical connection of a naturally reductive space

DOI10.1007/S00605-013-0554-6MaRDI QIDQ387548zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Silvio Reggiani, Carlos Olmos

Publication date 23 December 2013

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8374

zbMATH Keywords

isometry groupcanonical connectionnaturally reductive spacesskew-symmetric torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: We extend the result in J. Reine Angew. Math. 664, 29-53, to the non-compact case. Namely, we prove that the canonical connection on a simply connected and irreducible naturally reductive space is unique, provided the space is not a sphere, a compact Lie group with a bi-invariant metric or its symmetric dual. In particular, the canonical connection is unique for the hyperbolic space when the dimension is different from three. We also prove that the canonical connection on the sphere is unique for the symmetric presentation. Finally, we compute the full isometry group (connected component) of a compact and locally irreducible naturally reductive space.

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