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Cartan class of Invariant forms on Lie groups

Differential Geometry 2014-07-25 v1

Abstract

We are interested in the class, in the Elie Cartan sense, of left invariant forms on a Lie group. We construct the class of Lie algebras provided with a contact form and classify the frobeniusian Lie algebras up to a contraction. We also study forms which are invariant by a subgroup. We show that the simple group SL(2n,R) which doesn't admit left invariant contact form, yet admits a contact form which is invariant by a maximal compact subgroup. We determine also Pfaffian forms on the Heisenberg 33-dimensional group invariant by a subgroup and obtain the Transport Equation.

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@article{arxiv.1312.1721,
  title  = {Cartan class of Invariant forms on Lie groups},
  author = {Michel Goze and Elisabeth Remm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1721},
  year   = {2014}
}

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