Noncompact simple automorphism groups of Lorentz manifolds and other geometric manifolds

DOI10.2307/2118566MaRDI QIDQ674545zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nadine Kowalsky

Publication date 24 September 1997

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2118566

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic groupsLorentzian manifoldstabilizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Lie groups (22E05) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Review text

The author classifies those noncompact simple \(\mathbb{R}\)-algebraic groups \(G\) which act non-properly on a Lorentzian manifold \(M\) and preserve its metric. The main achievement over earlier work by other authors is that in the present paper \(M\) may be noncompact. The author proves that \(G\) must be locally isomorphic to \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\) if all \(G\)-stabilizers are discrete. If \(G\) has arbitrary stabilizers, \(G\) can also be locally isomorphic to \(\text{SO}(n,1)\) or \(\text{SO}(n,2)\) for some \(n\). Part of her results can be generalized to pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

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