Lorentzian Flat Lie Groups Admitting a Timelike Left-Invariant Killing Vector Field

zbMATH Open1326.53102arXiv1311.6174MaRDI QIDQ5262797FDOQ5262797

Hicham Lebzioui

Publication date: 16 July 2015

Abstract: We call a connected Lie group endowed with a left-invariant Lorentzian flat metric Lorentzian flat Lie group. In this Note, we determine all Lorentzian flat Lie groups admitting a timelike left-invariant Killing vector field. We show that these Lie groups are 2-solvable and unimodular and hence geodesically complete. Moreover, we show that a Lorentzian flat Lie group $(mathrmG,mu)$ admits a timelike left-invariant Killing vector field if and only if $mathrmG$ admits a left-invariant Riemannian metric which has the same Levi-Civita connection of $mu$. Finally, we give an useful characterization of left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian flat metrics on Lie groups $mathrmG$ satisfying the property: for any couple of left invariant vector fields $X$ and $Y$ their Lie bracket $[X,Y]$ is a linear combination of $X$ and $Y$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6174

zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupsKilling vector fieldLie algebrasflat Lorentzian metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cited In (2)

• Harmonicity of vector fields on a class of Lorentzian solvable Lie groups
• Left invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on solvable Lie groups

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