Homogeneity and curvatures of geodesic spheres

DOI10.1007/S00605-006-0385-9MaRDI QIDQ863494zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eduardo García-Río, José Carlos Díaz-Ramos, Lieven Vanhecke

Publication date 26 January 2007

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-006-0385-9

zbMATH Keywords

curvature invariantsDamek-Ricci spacesgeodesic sphereshomogeneous spacestwo-point homogeneous spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The purpose of this paper is to link the study of geodesic spheres with the investigation of scalar curvature invariants. The whole space of scalar curvature invariants is generated by the so-called Weyl invariants. For an arbitrary simple Weyl invariant on a geodesic sphere, the authors give an explicit expression of the first terms in its power series expansion as a function of the radius. By integrating that invariant, they obtain the corresponding total scalar curvature of a geodesic sphere and discuss its power series expansion. The geometrical meaning of the first terms in those expansions is studied, leading to characterizations of the two-point homogeneous spaces among Riemannian manifolds with adapted holonomy.

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