The classification of naturally reductive homogeneous spaces in dimensions n 6

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2014.11.005zbMATH Open1435.53040arXiv1407.4936OpenAlexW2962921367WikidataQ115156371 ScholiaQ115156371MaRDI QIDQ490686FDOQ490686

Ana Cristina Ferreira, Thomas Friedrich, Ilka Agricola

Publication date: 27 August 2015

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new method for classifying naturally reductive homogeneous spaces -- i.,e.~homogeneous Riemannian manifolds admitting a metric connection with skew torsion that has parallel torsion emph{and} curvature. This method is based on a deeper understanding of the holonomy algebra of connections with parallel skew torsion on Riemannian manifolds and the interplay of such a connection with the geometric structure on the given Riemannian manifold. It allows to reproduce by easier arguments the known classifications in dimensions $3,4$, and $5$, and yields as a new result the classification in dimension $6$. In each dimension, one obtains a `hierarchy' of degeneracy for the torsion form, which we then treat case by case. For the completely degenerate cases, we obtain results that are independent of the dimension. In some situations, we are able to prove that any Riemannian manifold with parallel skew torsion has to be naturally reductive. We show that a `generic' parallel torsion form defines a quasi-Sasakian structure in dimension $5$ and an almost complex structure in dimension $6$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4936

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic connectionholonomy algebraalmost complex manifoldquasi-Sasakian manifoldconnection with skew torsionnaturally reductive homogeneous space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

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