Compact Riemannian manifolds with homogeneous geodesics

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.093zbMATH Open1189.53047arXiv0904.3592OpenAlexW2108946413WikidataQ115219686 ScholiaQ115219686MaRDI QIDQ970281FDOQ970281

Authors: Dmitri Alekseevsky, Yurii G. Nikonorov 

Publication date: 17 May 2010

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

Abstract: A homogeneous Riemannian space $(M=G/H,g)$ is called a geodesic orbit space (shortly, GO-space) if any geodesic is an orbit of one-parameter subgroup of the isometry group $G$. We study the structure of compact GO-spaces and give some sufficient conditions for existence and non-existence of an invariant metric $g$ with homogeneous geodesics on a homogeneous space of a compact Lie group $G$. We give a classification of compact simply connected GO-spaces $(M=G/H,g)$ of positive Euler characteristic. If the group $G$ is simple and the metric $g$ does not come from a bi-invariant metric of $G$, then $M$ is one of the flag manifolds $M_1=SO(2n+1)/U(n)$ or $M_2=Sp(n)/U(1)cdotSp(n-1)$ and $g$ is any invariant metric on $M$ which depends on two real parameters. In both cases, there exists unique (up to a scaling) symmetric metric $g_0$ such that $(M,g_0)$ is the symmetric space $M=SO(2n+2)/U(n+1)$ or, respectively, $mathbbC{P}^{2n-1}$. The manifolds $M_1$, $M_2$ are weakly symmetric spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3592

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zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous spacesgeodesicsgeodesic orbit spaceshomogeneous spaces of positive Euler characteristicnormal homogeneous Riemannian manifoldsweakly symmetric spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

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