Algebraic properties of bounded Killing vector fields
Abstract
In this paper, we consider a connected Riemannian manifold where a connected Lie group acts effectively and isometrically. Assume defines a bounded Killing vector field, we find some crucial algebraic properties of the decomposition according to a Levi decomposition , where is the radical, and is a Levi subalgebra. The decomposition coincides with the abstract Jordan decomposition of , and is unique in the sense that it does not depend on the choice of . By these properties, we prove that the eigenvalues of are all imaginary. Furthermore, when is a Riemannian homogeneous space, we can completely determine all bounded Killing vector fields induced by vectors in . We prove that the space of all these bounded Killing vector fields, or equivalently the space of all bounded vectors in for , is a compact Lie subalgebra, such that its semi-simple part is the ideal of , and its Abelian part is the sum of and all two-dimensional irreducible -representations in corresponding to nonzero imaginary weights, i.e. -linear functionals , where is the nilradical.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.08710,
title = {Algebraic properties of bounded Killing vector fields},
author = {Ming Xu and Yu. G. Nikonorov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08710},
year = {2019}
}