On the affine group of a normal homogeneous manifold

DOI10.1007/S10455-009-9190-8MaRDI QIDQ963261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Silvio Reggiani

Publication date 19 April 2010

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1802

zbMATH Keywords

affine groupisometry groupcanonical connectionnaturally reductive spacenormal homogeneous spacetransvection group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: A very important class of homogeneous Riemannian manifolds are the so-called normal homogeneous spaces, which have associated a canonical connection. In this work we obtain geometrically the (connected component of the) group of affine transformations with respect to the canonical connection for a normal homogeneous space. The naturally reductive case is also treated. This completes the geometric calculation of the isometry group of naturally reductive spaces. In addition, we prove that for normal homogeneous spaces the set of fixed points of the full isotropy is a torus. As an application of our results it follows that the holonomy group of a homogeneous fibration is contained in the group of (canonically) affine transformations of the fibers, in particular this holonomy group is a Lie group (this is a result of Guijarro and Walschap).

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