The existence of light-like homogeneous geodesics in homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds

DOI10.1002/MANA.201400156MaRDI QIDQ5265350zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zdeněk Dušek

Publication date 23 July 2015

Published in Mathematische Nachrichten (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6757

zbMATH Keywords

Killing vector fieldhomogeneous manifoldhomogeneous geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: In previous papers, a fundamental affine method for studying homogeneous geodesics was developed. Using this method and elementary differential topology it was proved that any homogeneous affine manifold and in particular any homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifold admits a homogeneous geodesic through arbitrary point. In the present paper this affine method is refined and adapted to the pseudo-Riemannian case. Using this method and elementary topology it is proved that any homogeneous Lorentzian manifold of even dimension admits a light-like homogeneous geodesic. The method is illustrated in detail with an example of the Lie group of dimension 3 with an invariant metric, which does not admit any light-like homogeneous geodesic.

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