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Tangent Lie groups are Riemannian naturally reductive spaces

Differential Geometry 2016-03-22 v1

Abstract

Given a compact Lie group GG with Lie algebra g\mathfrak{g}, we consider its tangent Lie group TGGAdgTG\cong G\ltimes_{\mathrm{Ad}} \mathfrak{g}. In this short note, we prove that TGTG admits a left-invariant naturally reductive Riemannian metric gg and a metric connection with skew torsion \nabla such that (TG,g,)(TG,g,\nabla) is naturally reductive. An alternative spinorial description of the same connection on the direct product G×gG\times \mathfrak{g} generalizes in a rather subtle way to TS7TS^7, which is in many senses almost a tangent Lie group.

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@article{arxiv.1603.06211,
  title  = {Tangent Lie groups are Riemannian naturally reductive spaces},
  author = {Ilka Agricola and Ana Cristina Ferreira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.06211},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages, Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, March 2016