Geodesically Equivalent Metrics on Homogenous Spaces

DOI10.21136/CMJ.2018.0557-17zbMATH Open1513.53099arXiv1805.08240WikidataQ128954258 ScholiaQ128954258MaRDI QIDQ6301908FDOQ6301908

Neda Bokan, Tijana Šukilović, S. Vukmirović

Publication date: 21 May 2018

Abstract: Two metrics on a manifold are geodesically equivalent if sets of their unparameterized geodesics coincide. In this paper we show that if two left $G$-invariant metrics of arbitrary signature on homogenous space $G/H$ are geodesically equivalent, they are affinely equivalent, i.e. they have the same Levi-Civita connection. We also prove that existence of non-proportional, geodesically equivalent, $G$-invariant metrics on homogenous space $G/H$ implies that their holonomy algebra cannot be full. We give an algorithm for finding all left invariant metrics geodesically equivalent to a given left invariant metric on a Lie group. Using that algorithm we prove that no two left invariant metric, of any signature, on sphere $S^3$ are geodesically equivalent. However, we present examples of Lie groups that admit geodesically equivalent, non-proportional, left-invariant metrics.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15)

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