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We study isometric immersions of surfaces into simply connected 3-dimensional unimodular Lie groups endowed with either Riemannian or Lorentzian left-invariant metrics, assuming that Milnor's operator is diagonalizable in the Lorentzian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Ildefonso Castro , José M. Manzano , José S. Santiago

We contribute to the classification of toroidal circle planes and flat Minkowski planes possessing three-dimensional connected groups of automorphisms. When such a group is an almost simple Lie group, we show that it is isomorphic to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Brendan Creutz , Duy Ho , Günter F. Steinke

A new characterization is provided for the class of compact rank-one symmetric spaces. Such spaces are the only symmetric spaces of compact type for which the standard vector field on their sphere bundles is Killing with respect to some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-21 J. C. González-Dávila

In this paper we construct a topological model for the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants for $3$-manifolds coming from the quantum group $U_q(sl(2))$, as graded intersection pairings of homology classes in configuration spaces. More…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Cristina Ana-Maria Anghel

Codimension 2 contact submanifolds are the natural generalization of transverse knots to contact manifolds of arbitrary dimension. In this paper, we construct new invariants of codimension 2 contact submanifolds. Our main invariant can be…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Laurent Côté , François-Simon Fauteux-Chapleau

We characterise Lie groups with bi-invariant bargmannian, galilean or carrollian structures. Localising at the identity, we show that Lie algebras with ad-invariant bargmannian, carrollian or galilean structures are actually determined by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-18 José Figueroa-O'Farrill

Let $M^3 \subset \mathbb{C}^2$ be a $\mathcal{C}^\omega$ Levi nondegenerate hypersurface. In the literature, Cartan-Moser chains are detected from rather advanced considerations: either from the construction of a Cartan connection…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Joel Merker

The main purpose of this article is to classify contact structures on some 3-manifolds, namely lens spaces, most torus bundles over a circle, the solid torus, and the thickened torus T^2 x [0,1]. This classification completes earlier work…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Emmanuel Giroux

We exploit the Cartan-K\"ahler theory to prove the local existence of real analytic quaternionic contact structures for any prescribed values of the respective curvature functions and their covariant derivatives at a given point on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Ivan Minchev , Jan Slovák

One of the four well-known series of simple Lie algebras of Cartan type is the series of Lie algebras of Special type, which are divergence-free Lie algebras associated with polynomial algebras and the operators of taking partial…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yucai Su , Xiaoping Xu

We discuss contact invariant structures on the space of solutions of a third-order ordinary differential equation. Associated to any third-order differential equation modulo contact transformations, Chern introduced a degenerate conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Jonathan Holland , George Sparling

In this thesis new objects to the existing set of invariants of Lie algebras are added. These invariant characteristics are capable of describing the nilpotent parametric continuum of Lie algebras. The properties of these invariants, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jiří Hrivnák

We consider the completeness problem for left-invariant Lorentzian metrics on 3-dimensional non-unimodular Lie groups, all of which have Lie algebra of the form $\mathbb{R} \ltimes_A \mathbb{R}^2$, where $A$ is a real $2 \times 2$ matrix…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Salah Chaib , Ana Cristina Ferreira

We consider a class of infinite-dimensional, modular, graded Lie algebras, which includes the graded Lie algebra associated to the Nottingham group with respect to its lower central series. We identify two subclasses of Nottingham Lie…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Marina Avitabile , Sandro Mattarei

In this paper, we investigate left invariant Riemannian metrics on Lie groups with one and two-dimensional commutator subgroups. We explicitly provide the Levi-Civita connection, sectional curvature, and Ricci curvature, and we give…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Hamid Reza Salimi Moghaddam

We classify compact manifolds of dimension three equipped with a path structure and a fixed contact form (which we refer to as a strict path structure) under the hypothesis that their automorphism group is non-compact. We use a Cartan…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Elisha Falbel , Martin Mion-Mouton , Jose Miguel Veloso

We study the question of the existence of left-invariant Sasaki contact structures on the seven-dimensional nilpotent Lie groups. It is shown that the only Lie group allowing Sasaki structure with a positive definite metric tensor is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Nikolay K. Smolentsev

Starting from a Riemannian conformal structure on a manifold M, we provide a method to construct a family of Lorentzian manifolds. The construction relies on the choice of a metric in the conformal class and a smooth 1-parameter family of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Rodrigo Morón , Francisco J. Palomo

We give an $h$--principle type result for a class of Legendrian embeddings in contact manifolds of dimension at least $5$. These Legendrians, referred to as loose, have trivial pseudo-holomorphic invariants. We demonstrate they are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Emmy Murphy

In this paper, we present the classification of all possible signatures of the Ricci curvature of left-invariant Riemannian metrics on 4-dimensional Lie groups and discuss some related questions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-03 A. G. Kremlyov , Yu. G. Nikonorov