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Lorentzian left invariant metrics on three dimensional unimodular Lie groups and their curvatures

Differential Geometry 2019-03-14 v1

Abstract

There are five unimodular simply connected three dimensional unimodular non abelian Lie groups: the nilpotent Lie group Nil\mathrm{Nil}, the special unitary group SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(2), the universal covering group PSL~(2,R)\widetilde{\mathrm{PSL}}(2,\mathbb{R}) of the special linear group, the solvable Lie group Sol\mathrm{Sol} and the universal covering group E0~(2)\widetilde{\mathrm{E}_0}(2) of the connected component of the Euclidean group. For each GG among these Lie groups, we give explicitly the list of all Lorentzian left invariant metrics on GG, up to un automorphism of GG. Moreover, for any Lorentzian left invariant metric in this list we give its Ricci curvature, scalar curvature, the signature of the Ricci curvature and we exhibit some special features of these curvatures. Namely, we give all the metrics with constant curvature, semi-symmetric non locally symmetric metrics and the Ricci solitons.

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@article{arxiv.1903.05194,
  title  = {Lorentzian left invariant metrics on three dimensional unimodular Lie groups and their curvatures},
  author = {Mohamed Boucetta and Abdelmounaim Chakkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05194},
  year   = {2019}
}

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