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On the isometry group and the geometric structure of compact stationary Lorentzian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2010-02-04 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We study the geometry of compact Lorentzian manifolds that admit a somewhere timelike Killing vector field, and whose isometry group has infinitely many connected components. Up to a finite cover, such manifolds are products (or amalgamated products) of a flat Lorentzian torus and a compact Riemannian (resp., lightlike) manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1002.0814,
  title  = {On the isometry group and the geometric structure of compact stationary Lorentzian manifolds},
  author = {Paolo Piccione and Abdelghani Zeghib},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0814},
  year   = {2010}
}

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27 pages