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A solution of the problem of standard compact Clifford-Klein forms

Differential Geometry 2025-02-24 v3

Abstract

We solve the long standing problem of classification of standard compact Clifford-Klein forms of homogeneous spaces of simple non-compact real Lie groups under the extra assumption that GG, HH, LL are simple and absolutely simple. Then the result is that standard compact Clifford-Klein forms always arise from triples (g,h,l)(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{h},\mathfrak{l}) of real Lie algebras such that hg,lg\mathfrak{h}\subset\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{l}\subset\mathfrak{g}, g\mathfrak{g} is simple and absolutely simple, h,l\mathfrak{h},\mathfrak{l} are (non-compact) reductive, g=h+l\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{h}+\mathfrak{l}, and the intersection hl\mathfrak{h}\cap\mathfrak{l} is compact. The consequence of this is the following characterization of proper co-compact actions of reductive Lie subgroups LGL\subset G on a homogeneous spaces G/HG/H determined by absolutely simple real Lie group GG and a closed reductive subgroup HH: LL acts on G/HG/H properly and co-compactly if and only if G=HLG=H\cdot L and HLH\cap L is compact.

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@article{arxiv.2403.10539,
  title  = {A solution of the problem of standard compact Clifford-Klein forms},
  author = {Maciej Bochenski and Aleksy Tralle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10539},
  year   = {2025}
}

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33 pages, this is a new version which has a new structure, some proofs are provided in a more detailed form