English

G\'eom\'etrie des groupes oscillateurs et vari\'et\'es localement sym\'etriques

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The Oscillator Groups,\Gλ,\G_\lambda, are the only solvable, non commutative, simply connected Lie groups to admit a Lorentzian bi-invariant metric. For these groups, we give sufficient conditions for a left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metric to be complete, we determine the group of isometries, we exhibit a left-invariant affine structure and prove that it is not Lorentzian. As an application, we provide new examples of compact pseudo-Riemannian (sometimes Lorentzian) locally symmetric, occasionally affine, manifolds, complete or incomplete.

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@article{arxiv.math/0204019,
  title  = {G\'eom\'etrie des groupes oscillateurs et vari\'et\'es localement sym\'etriques},
  author = {Shirley Bromberg and Alberto Medina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0204019},
  year   = {2007}
}