On Riemannian non symmetric spaces and flag manifolds

Authors Abelkader Bouyakoub, Michel Goze, Elisabeth Remm

Publication date 28 September 2006

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

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.

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