Local and global rigidity for isometric actions of simple Lie groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

MaRDI QIDQ5111099zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Raul Quiroga-Barranco

Publication date 26 May 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01688, http://www.heldermann.de/JLT/JLT30/JLT302/jlt30030.htm#jlt302

zbMATH Keywords

exceptional Lie groupspseudo-Riemannian manifoldsrigidity results

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exceptional groups (20G41) Rigidity results (53C24) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a finite volume analytic pseudo-Riemannian manifold that admits an isometric $G$-action with a dense orbit, where $G$ is a connected non-compact simple Lie group. For low-dimensional $M$, i.e. $dim(M)<2dim(G)$, when the normal bundle to the $G$-orbits is non-integrable and for suitable conditions, we prove that $M$ has a $G$-invariant metric which is locally isometric to a Lie group with a bi-invariant metric (local rigidity theorem). The latter does not require $M$ to be complete as in previous works. We also prove a general result showing that $M$ is, up to a finite covering, of the form $H/Gamma$ ($Gamma$ a lattice in the group $H$) when we assume that $M$ is complete (global rigidity theorem). For both the local and the global rigidity theorems we provide cases that imply the rigidity of $G$-actions for $G$ given by $mathrm{SO}_0(p,q)$, $G_{2(2)}$ or a non-compact simple Lie group of type $F_4$ over $mathbbR$. We also survey the techniques and results related to this work.

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