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

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.

d i m (M) < 2 d i m (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 / G a m m a

(

G a m m a

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

m a t h r m {S O}_{0} (p, q)

,

G_{2 (2)}

or a non-compact simple Lie group of type

F_{4}

over

m a t h b b R

. We also survey the techniques and results related to this work.

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