Connection Blocking In Quotients of Sol

arXiv1803.06415MaRDI QIDQ6299176FDOQ6299176

Authors: Mohammadreza Bidar 

Publication date: 16 March 2018

Abstract: Let $G$ be a connected Lie group and $GammasubsetG$ a lattice. Connection curves of the homogeneous space $M=G/Gamma$ are the orbits of one parameter subgroups of $G$. To $block$ a pair of points $m_1,m_{2}inM$ is to find a finite set $BsubsetMsetminus{m}_1,m_2$ such that every connecting curve joining $m_1$ and $m_2$ intersects $B$. The homogeneous space $M$ is $blockable$ if every pair of points in $M$ can be blocked, otherwise we call it $non-blockable$. $Sol$ is an important Lie group and one of the eight homogeneous Thurston 3-geometries. It is a unimodular solvable Lie group diffeomorphic to $R^3$, and together with the left invariant metric $d{s}^2=e^{-2z}d{x}^2+e^{2z}d{y}^2+d{z}^2$ includes copies of the hyperbolic plane, which makes studying its geometrical properties more interesting. In this paper we prove that all quotients of $Sol$ are non-blockable. In particular, we show that for any lattice $GammasubsetSol$, the set of non-blockable pairs is a dense subset of $Sol/GammaimesSol/Gamma$.

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