Connected subgroups of SO(2,n) acting irreducibly on R^2,n

DOI10.1007/S11856-011-0025-5MaRDI QIDQ532604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Leistner, Antonio J. Di Scala

Publication date 5 May 2011

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2586

zbMATH Keywords

holonomy groupirreducible actionisometry groupLie grouptotally geodesic submanifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: We classify all connected subgroups of SO(2,n) that act irreducibly on $R^{2,n}$. Apart from $S{O}_0(2,n)$ itself these are $U(1,n/2)$, $SU(1,n/2)$, if $n$ even, $S^{1}cdotSO(1,n/2)$ if $n$ even and $nge2$, and $S{O}_0(1,2)$ for $n=3$. Our proof is based on the Karpelevich Theorem and uses the classification of totally geodesic submanifolds of complex hyperbolic space and of the Lie ball. As an application we obtain a list of possible irreducible holonomy groups of Lorentzian conformal structures, namely $S{O}_0(2,n)$, SU(1,n), and $S{O}_0(1,2)$.

Review text

The main result of the paper is the following theorem. Let \(G\subset\text{SO}(2, n)\) be a connected Lie group that acts irreducibly on \(\mathbb{R}^{2,n}\). Then \(G\) is conjugated to: (1) \(\text{SO}_0(2, n)\), for \(n\geq 1\); (2) \(U(1, p)\), \(\text{SU}(1, p)\), \(S^1\cdot\text{SO}_0(1, p)\) if \(n= 2p\), \(p> 1\); (3) \(\text{SO}_0(1, 2)\subset\text{SO}(2, 3)\), for \(n= 3\). The proof of the above theorem is based on a theorem of Karpelevich and Mostow: Let \(M=\text{Iso}(M)/K\) be a Riemannian symmetric space of non-compact type. Then any connected and semisimple subgroup \(G\) of the full isometry group \(\text{Iso}(M)\) has a totally geodesic orbit \(G\cdot p\subset M\). [See \textit{F. I. Karpelevich}, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, n. Ser. 93, 401--404 (1953; Zbl 0052.38901); \textit{G. D. Mostow}, Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 14, 31--54 (1955; Zbl 0064.25901).] There are also remarks which compare the list of groups from the main theorem with the list of \textit{M. Berger} [Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 83, 279--330 (1955; Zbl 0068.36002)].

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