Isometric action of SL₂(R) on homogeneous spaces

DOI10.1007/S00006-010-0203-2MaRDI QIDQ5962211zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anastasia V. Kisil

Publication date 21 September 2010

Published in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.0368

zbMATH Keywords

distance functionsparabolic geometryinvariant geodesic curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: We investigate the SL(2,R) invariant geodesic curves with the as- sociated invariant distance function in parabolic geometry. Parabolic geom- etry naturally occurs in the study of SL(2,R) and is placed in between the elliptic and the hyperbolic (also known as the Lobachevsky half-plane and 2- dimensional Minkowski half-plane space-time) geometries. Initially we attempt to use standard methods of finding geodesics but they lead to degeneracy in this setup. Instead, by studying closely the two related elliptic and hyperbolic geometries we discover a unified approach to a more exotic and less obvious parabolic case. With aid of common invariants we describe the possible dis- tance functions that turn out to have some unexpected, interesting properties.

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