Toward a classification of Killing vector fields of constant length on pseudo-Riemannian normal homogeneous spaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1488503006MaRDI QIDQ524877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joseph A. Wolf, Fabio Podestà, Ming Xu

Publication date 26 April 2017

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08267, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1488503006

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous spacessimple Lie groupsKilling vector fields of constant lengthnormal pseudo-Riemannian metricssemi-simple Lie groups.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: In this paper we develop the basic tools for a classification of Killing vector fields of constant length on pseudo--riemannian homogeneous spaces. This extends a recent paper of M. Xu and J. A. Wolf, which classified the pairs $(M,xi)$ where $M=G/H$ is a Riemannian normal homogeneous space, $G$ is a compact simple Lie group, and $xiinmathfrakg$ defines a nonzero Killing vector field of constant length on $M$. The method there was direct computation. Here we make use of the moment map $Momathfrak{g}^{\ast }$ and the flag manifold structure of Ad(G)$xi$ to give a shorter, more geometric proof which does not require compactness and which is valid in the pseudo--riemannian setting. In that context we break the classification problem into three parts. The first is easily settled. The second concerns the cases where $xi$ is elliptic and $G$ is simple (but not necessarily compact); that case is our main result here. The third, which remains open, is a more combinatorial problem involving elements of the first two.

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