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Conformal Minimal Foliations on Semi-Riemannian Lie Groups

Differential Geometry 2020-12-17 v1

Abstract

We study left-invariant foliations F{\mathcal F} on semi-Riemannian Lie groups GG generated by a subgroup KK. We are interested in such foliations which are conformal and with minimal leaves of codimension two. We classify such foliations F{\mathcal F} when the subgroup KK is one of the important SU(2)\text{SU}(2), SL2(R)\text{SL}_{2}(\mathbb R), SU(2)×SU(2)\text{SU}(2)\times\text{SU}(2), SU(2)×SL2(R)\text{SU}(2)\times\text{SL}_{2}(\mathbb R), SU(2)×SO(2)\text{SU}(2)\times\text{SO}(2), SL2(R)×SU(2)\text{SL}_{2}(\mathbb R)\times\text{SU}(2). This way we construct new multi-dimensional families of Lie groups GG carrying such foliations in each case. These foliations F{\mathcal F} produce local complex-valued harmonic morphisms on the corresponding Lie group GG.

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@article{arxiv.2012.08627,
  title  = {Conformal Minimal Foliations on Semi-Riemannian Lie Groups},
  author = {Elsa Ghandour and Sigmundur Gudmundsson and Victor Ottosson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.08627},
  year   = {2020}
}