Locally compact homogeneous spaces with inner metric

zbMATH Open1394.53057arXiv1412.7893MaRDI QIDQ887231FDOQ887231

V. N. Berestovskij

Publication date: 28 October 2015

Published in: Journal of Generalized Lie Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The author reviews his results on locally compact homogeneous spaces with inner metric, in particular, homogeneous manifolds with inner metric. The latter are isometric to homogeneous (sub-)Finslerian manifolds; under some additional conditions they are isometric to homogeneous (sub)-Riemannian manifolds. The class $Omega$ of all locally compact homogeneous spaces with inner metric is supplied with some metric $d_{BGH}$ such that 1) $(Omega,d_{BGH})$ is a complete metric space; 2) a sequences in $(Omega,d_{BGH})$ is converging if and only if it is converging in Gromov-Hausdorff sense; 3) the subclasses $mathfrakM$ of homogeneous manifolds with inner metric and $mathfrakLG$ of connected Lie groups with left-invariant Finslerian metric are everywhere dense in $(Omega,d_{BGH}).$ It is given a metric characterization of Carnot groups with left-invariant sub-Finslerian metric. At the end are described homogeneous manifolds such that any invariant inner metric on any of them is Finslerian.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7893

zbMATH Keywords

Gromov-Hausdorff limitCarnot groupLie algebratangent coneLie groupsymmetric spaceshortest arcsubmetryCohn-Vossen theoremhomogeneous (sub-)Finslerian manifoldhomogeneous (sub-)Riemannian manifoldhomogeneous isotropy irreducible spacehomogeneous manifold with inner metrichomogeneous space with integrable invariant distributionslocally compact homogeneous geodesic spacenon-holonomic metric geometryRashevsky-Chow theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

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