Non-solvable Lie groups with negative Ricci curvature

Abstract: Until a couple of years ago, the only known examples of Lie groups admitting left-invariant metrics with negative Ricci curvature were either solvable or semisimple. We use a general construction from a previous article of the second named author to produce a great amount of examples with compact Levy factor. Given a compact semisimple real Lie algebra

m a t h f r a k u

and a real representation

p i

satisfying some technical properties, the construction returns a metric Lie algebra

m a t h f r a k l (m a t h f r a k u, p i)

with negative Ricci operator. In this paper, when

m a t h f r a k u

is assumed to be simple, we prove that

m a t h f r a k l (m a t h f r a k u, p i)

admits a metric having negative Ricci curvature for all but finitely many finite-dimensional irreducible representations of

m a t h f r a k u o t i m e s_{m a t h b b R} m a t h b b C

, regarded as a real representation of

m a t h f r a k u

. We also prove in the last section a more general result where the nilradical is not abelian, as it is in every

m a t h f r a k l (m a t h f r a k u, p i)

.

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