Riemannian manifolds with local symmetry

DOI10.1142/S179352531450006XMaRDI QIDQ5415802zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Wouter van Limbeek

Publication date 16 May 2014

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7564

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous spacesLie groupstransformation groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Abstract: We give a classification of many closed Riemannian manifolds M whose universal cover possesses a nontrivial amount of symmetry. More precisely, we consider closed Riemannian manifolds $M$ such that Isom$(widetildeM)$ has noncompact connected components. We prove that in many cases, such a manifold is as a fiber bundle over a locally homogeneous space. This is inspired by work of Eberlein (for nonpositively curved manifolds) and Farb-Weinberger (for aspherical manifolds), and generalizes work of Frankel (for a semisimple group action). As an application, we characterize simply-connected Riemannian manifolds with both compact and finite volume noncompact quotients.

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