Concerning the existence of Einstein and Ricci soliton metrics on solvable Lie groups

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Abstract: In this work we investigate solvable and nilpotent Lie groups with special metrics. The metrics of interest are left-invariant Einstein and algebraic Ricci soliton metrics. Our main result shows that the existence of a such a metric is intrinsic to the underlying Lie algebra. More precisely, we show how one may determine the existence of such a metric by analyzing algebraic properties of the Lie algebra in question and infinitesimal deformations of any initial metric. Our second main result concerns the isometry groups of such distinguished metrics. Among the completely solvable unimodular Lie groups (this includes nilpotent groups), if the Lie group admits such a metric, we show that the isometry group of this special metric is maximal among all isometry groups of left-invariant metrics. We finish with a similar result for locally left-invariant metrics on compact nilmanifolds.


The main study in the present paper are the left-invariant metrics on noncompact Lie groups. The main question addressed is the following: Given a solvable Lie group \(G\), how can one determine if it admits an Einstein or solvsoliton metric? The answer given by the author is that the existence of such a metric can be determined by analyzing algebraic invariants of the Lie algebra of \(G\) and infinitesimal deformations of any left-invariant metric on \(G\). In fact a detailed algorithm is given in order to determine such a metric. The other main result of the paper is related to isometry groups of solvsoliton metrics. It is shown that if \(S\) is a completely solvable unimodular Lie group admitting a solvsoliton metric, and \(g\) is any left-invariant metric, then there exists a left-invariant soliton metric \(g'\) such that \(\text{Isom}(S, g)\subset\text{Isom}(S, g')\) as groups.



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