Geodesics in generalized Wallach spaces

DOI10.1007/S00022-015-0268-0zbMATH Open1332.53054arXiv1503.04279OpenAlexW2080503175MaRDI QIDQ895724FDOQ895724

Authors: Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos, Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris 

Publication date: 4 December 2015

Published in: Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study geodesics in generalized Wallach spaces which are expressed as orbits of products of three exponential terms. These are homogeneous spaces $M=G/K$ whose isotropy representation decomposes into a direct sum of three submodules $frakm=frak{m}_{1}oplusfrak{m}_{2}oplusfrak{m}_3$, satisfying the relations $[frak{m}_i,frak{m}_i]subsetfrakk$. Assuming that the submodules $frak{m}_i$ are pairwise non isomorphic, we study geodesics on such spaces of the form $gamma(t)=exp(tX)exp(tY)exp(tZ)cdoto$, where $Xinfr{m}_1,Yinfr{m}_2,Zinfr{m}_3$ ($o=eK$), with respect to a $G$-invariant metric. Our investigation imposes certain restrictions on the $G$-invariant metric, so the geodesics turn out to be orbits of two exponential terms. We give a point of view using Riemannian submersions. As an application, we describe geodesics in generalized flag manifolds with three isotropy summands and with second Betti number $b_2(M)=2$, and in the Stiefel manifolds $SO(n+2)/S(n)$. We relate our results to geodesic orbit spaces (g.o. spaces).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04279

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zbMATH Keywords

Stiefel manifoldgeodesicgeneralized Wallach spacehomogeneous spacegeodesic orbit spacegeneralized flag manifoldisotropy representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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