On Riemannian non symmetric spaces and flag manifolds

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Authors: Abelkader Bouyakoub, Michel Goze, Elisabeth Remm

Publication date: 28 September 2006

Abstract: In this work we study riemannian metrics on flag manifolds adapted to the symmetries of these homogeneous nonsymmetric spaces. We first introduce the notion of riemannian

G a m m a

-symmetric space when

G a m m a

is a general abelian finite group, the symmetric case corresponding to

. We describe and study all the riemannian metrics on

S O (2 n + 1) / S O (r_{1}) i m e s S O (r_{2}) i m e s S O (r_{3}) i m e s S O (2 n + 1 - r_{1} - r_{2} - r_{3})

for which the symmetries are isometries. We consider also the lorentzian case and give an example of a lorentzian homogeneous space which is not a symmetric space.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

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