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Higher degree Killing forms on $2-$step nilmanifolds

Differential Geometry 2021-06-15 v3 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We study left-invariant Killing forms of arbitrary degree on simply connected 22-step nilpotent Lie groups endowed with left-invariant Riemannian metrics, and classify them when the center of the group is at most two-dimensional.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01208,
  title  = {Higher degree Killing forms on $2-$step nilmanifolds},
  author = {Viviana del Barco and Andrei Moroianu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01208},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

22 pages. v3: the proof of Proposition 3.2. has been modified; the one in the previous version was only valid for unimodular Lie groups

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