Smoothness Conditions in Cohomogeneity manifolds

arXiv1804.04680MaRDI QIDQ6300296FDOQ6300296

Publication date: 12 April 2018

Abstract: In this paper we discuss the smoothness conditions for metrics on a cohomogeneity one manifold, i.e. metrics invariant under a Lie group whose generic orbits are hypersurfaces. Along these hypersurfaces one describes the metrics in terms of a collection of functions defined along a geodesic normal to the hypersurfaces. In a neighborhood of a lower dimensional orbit the functions must satisfy certain smoothness conditions for the metric to extend smoothly. In general these can be quite complicated. We present a method that makes it straightforward to compute them, and illustrate it in several examples. This second version contains some improvements in exposition and a reformulation of Theorem B, with a proof added.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

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