Lorentzian homogeneous structures with indecomposable holonomy
Abstract
For a Lorentzian homogeneous space, we study how algebraic conditions on the isotropy group affect the geometry and curvature of the homogeneous space. More specifically, we prove that a Lorentzian locally homogeneous space is locally isometric to a plane wave if it admits an Ambrose--Singer connection with indecomposable, non-irreducible holonomy. This generalises several existing results that require a certain algebraic type of the torsion of the Ambrose--Singer connection and moreover is in analogy to the fact that a Lorentzian homogeneous space with irreducible isotropy has constant sectional curvature. In addition, we prove results about Lorentzian connections with parallel torsion and for 2-symmetric connections.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.17470,
title = {Lorentzian homogeneous structures with indecomposable holonomy},
author = {Steven Greenwood and Thomas Leistner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.17470},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
32 pages, comments welcome. In v3 we added some results about connections with parallel torsion and about 2-symmetric connections