Conformal actions of nilpotent groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1215/00127094-2010-030zbMATH Open1204.53056arXiv0807.4735OpenAlexW2949561933WikidataQ115240685 ScholiaQ115240685MaRDI QIDQ984455FDOQ984455

Authors: Charles Frances, Karin Melnick 

Publication date: 19 July 2010

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

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.

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

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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)

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