Conformal actions of nilpotent groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1215/00127094-2010-030MaRDI QIDQ984455zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Charles Frances, Karin Melnick

Publication date 19 July 2010

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4735

zbMATH Keywords

pseudo-Riemannian manifoldnilpotent groupconformal flatnessconformal classconformal dynamicsEinstein universeconformal actiondegree of nilpotence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We study conformal actions of connected nilpotent Lie groups on compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. We prove that if a type-(p,q) compact manifold M supports a conformal action of a connected nilpotent group H, then the degree of nilpotence of H is at most 2p+1, assuming p <= q; further, if this maximal degree is attained, then M is conformally equivalent to the universal type-(p,q), compact, conformally flat space, up to finite covers. The proofs make use of the canonical Cartan geometry associated to a pseudo-Riemannian conformal structure.

Recommendations

• Conformal actions of simple Lie groups on compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
• Conformal actions of real-rank 1 simple Lie groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
• Some remarks on conformal pseudo-Riemannian actions of simple Lie groups
• Isometric actions on pseudo-Riemannian nilmanifolds
• Conformal actions of higher rank lattices on compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4078270 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 50185 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1014124 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 914712 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 914851 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2199826 (Why is no real title available?)
• A primer on the (2+1) Einstein universe
• A proof of the Liouville theorem of conformal geometry in the analytic case.
• An embedding theorem for automorphism groups of Cartan geometries
• Causal conformal vector fields, and singularities of twistor spinors
• Conformal Geodesics
• Conformal actions of simple Lie groups on compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
• Conformal geodesics in general relativity
• Conformal geodesics on vacuum space-times
• Introduction to arithmetic groups
• On Lorentz manifolds with essential conformal group
• On the automorphism group of a compact Lorentz manifold and other geometric manifolds
• Some remarks on conformal pseudo-Riemannian actions of simple Lie groups
• Split rank and semisimple automorphism groups of \(G\)-structures
• Sur le groupe d'automorphismes des géométries paraboliques de rang 1
• The action of conformal transformations on a Riemannian manifold
• The conjectures on conformal transformations of Riemannian manifolds
• Transformation groups in differential geometry.

Cited in

(20)

• Conformal Killing forms on 2-step nilpotent Riemannian Lie groups
• On low-dimensional manifolds with isometric \(\mathrm {SO}_{0}(p, q)\)-actions
• Influence of stratification on the groups of conformal transformations of pseudo-Riemannian orbifolds
• Strongly essential flows on irreducible parabolic geometries
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4203188 (Why is no real title available?)
• Local dynamics of conformal vector fields
• An embedding theorem for automorphism groups of Cartan geometries
• Conjugate points in nilpotent sub-Riemannian problem on the Engel group
• Conformal actions of real-rank 1 simple Lie groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
• The Lorentzian Lichnerowicz conjecture for real-analytic, three-dimensional manifolds
• Normal forms for conformal vector fields
• The conformal group of a compact simply connected Lorentzian manifold
• Topology of automorphism groups of parabolic geometries
• Conformal vector fields on Lie groups: the trans-Lorentzian signature
• About pseudo-Riemannian Lichnerowicz conjecture
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4065854 (Why is no real title available?)
• Isometric actions on pseudo-Riemannian nilmanifolds
• Conformal actions of simple Lie groups on compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
• On the Riemannian Geometry of the Nilpotent Groups H(p, r)
• Some remarks on conformal pseudo-Riemannian actions of simple Lie groups

This page was built for publication: Conformal actions of nilpotent groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q984455)