Ricci flow on three-dimensional, unimodular metric Lie algebras

DOI10.4310/CAG.2010.V18.N5.A3zbMATH Open1226.53066arXiv0909.0938OpenAlexW2963980890MaRDI QIDQ641533FDOQ641533

Authors: David Glickenstein, Tracy L. Payne 

Publication date: 24 October 2011

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a global picture of the Ricci flow on the space of three-dimensional, unimodular, nonabelian metric Lie algebras considered up to isometry and scaling. The Ricci flow is viewed as a two-dimensional dynamical system for the evolution of structure constants of the metric Lie algebra with respect to an evolving orthonormal frame. This system is amenable to direct phase plane analysis, and we find that the fixed points and special trajectories in the phase plane correspond to special metric Lie algebras, including Ricci solitons and special Riemannian submersions. These results are one way to unify the study of Ricci flow on left invariant metrics on three-dimensional, simply-connected, unimodular Lie groups, which had previously been studied by a case-by-case analysis of the different Bianchi classes. In an appendix, we prove a characterization of the space of three-dimensional, unimodular, nonabelian metric Lie algebras modulo isometry and scaling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0938

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zbMATH Keywords

Ricci solitonsleft-invariant Riemannian metricsmetric Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30)

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