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Ricci-flat and Einstein pseudoriemannian nilmanifolds

Differential Geometry 2019-05-10 v2

Abstract

This is partly an expository paper, where the authors' work on pseudoriemannian Einstein metrics on nilpotent Lie groups is reviewed. A new criterion is given for the existence of a diagonal Einstein metric on a nice nilpotent Lie group. Classifications of special classes of Ricci-flat metrics on nilpotent Lie groups of dimension 8\leq8 are obtained. Some related open questions are presented.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1812.01310,
  title  = {Ricci-flat and Einstein pseudoriemannian nilmanifolds},
  author = {Diego Conti and Federico A. Rossi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01310},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

30 pages, 1 figure. v2: added a comment on a recent example of an Einstein nilpotent Lie algebra of dimension 7; added a remark and a question concerning the characteristically nilpotent case; replaced the "\sigma-compatible" condition with the more general "\sigma-diagonal"; added 3 references

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