Gromov rigidity of bi-invariant metrics on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2020.068MaRDI QIDQ784869zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yukai Sun, Xianzhe Dai

Publication date 3 August 2020

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00161

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zbMATH Keywords

extremal/rigid metricshomogeneous spacesLie groupsscalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: Gromov asked if the bi-invariant metrics on a compact Lie group are extremal compared to any other metrics. In this note, we prove that the bi-invariant metrics on a compact connected semi-simple Lie group $G$ are extremal (in fact rigid) in the sense of Gromov when compared to the left-invariant metrics. In fact the same result holds for a compact connected homogeneous manifold $G/H$ with $G$ compact connect and semi-simple.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a compact connected semisimple Lie group and let \(H\) be a closed subgroup. Consider two Riemannian metrics \(g,g_0\) on \(M=G/H\) with scalar curvature \(R,R_0\), respectively. We say that \(g_0\) is rigid in the sense of Gromov if \(g\geq g_0\) and \(R \geq R_0\) implies \(g=g_0\). The authors prove that bi-invariant metrics on \(M\) are rigid among \(G\)-invariant metrics. If \(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{h}\) are the Lie algebras of \(G, H\) respectively, the proof of the result relies on the possibility to express the scalar curvature \(R\) in terms of numerical data coming from diagonalizing \(g\) on the \(g_0\)-orthogonal complement of \(\mathfrak{h}\) in \(\mathfrak{g}\).

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