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We consider homogeneous spaces of Lie groups with compact stabilizer subgroups of two types: those with integrable invariant distributions and those with geodesic orbit invariant Riemannian metrics. The latter means that for an arbitrary…

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We call the Lie algebra of a Lie group with a left invariant pseudo-Riemannian flat metric pseudo-Riemannian flat Lie algebra. We give a new proof of a classical result of Milnor on Riemannian flat Lie algebras. We reduce the study of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-04 Malika Aitbenhaddou , Mohamed Boucetta , Hicham Lebzioui

We give a characterization of the $2$-step nilpotent Lie algebras whose corresponding Lie groups admit a left invariant complex structure. This is done by considering separately the cases when the complex structure is 2-step or 3-step…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Maria Laura Barberis

In this paper, we formulate a procedure to obtain a generalization of Milnor frames for left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on a given Lie group. This procedure is an analogue of the recent studies on left-invariant Riemannian metrics,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Akira Kubo , Kensuke Onda , Yuichiro Taketomi , Hiroshi Tamaru

In this paper we study the invariant Carnot-Caratheodory metrics on $SU(2)\simeq S^3$, $SO(3)$ and $SL(2)$ induced by their Cartan decomposition and by the Killing form. Beside computing explicitly geodesics and conjugate loci, we compute…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-24 Ugo Boscain , Francesco Rossi

This paper describes a novel framework for computing geodesic paths in shape spaces of spherical surfaces under an elastic Riemannian metric. The novelty lies in defining this Riemannian metric directly on the quotient (shape) space, rather…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Alice Barbara Tumpach , Hassen Drira , Mohamed Daoudi , Anuj Srivastava

Many physically important mechanical systems may be described with a Lie group $G$ as configuration space. According to the well-known Noether's theorem, underlying symmetries of the Lie group may be used to considerably reduce the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-07 Joël Bensoam , Florie-Anne Baugé

We are interested in the class, in the Elie Cartan sense, of left invariant forms on a Lie group. We construct the class of Lie algebras provided with a contact form and classify the frobeniusian Lie algebras up to a contraction. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Michel Goze , Elisabeth Remm

In this paper, we prove results concerning the large scale geometry of connected, simply connected nonabelian nilpotent Lie groups equipped with left invariant Riemannian metrics. Precisely, we prove that there do not exist quasi-isometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Scott Pauls

A new purely algebraic algorithm is presented for computation of invariants (generalized Casimir operators) of Lie algebras. It uses the Cartan's method of moving frames and the knowledge of the group of inner automorphisms of each Lie…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Vyacheslav Boyko , Jiri Patera , Roman Popovych

Two-dimensional almost-Riemannian structures are generalized Riemannian structures on surfaces for which a local orthonormal frame is given by a Lie bracket generating pair of vector fields that can become collinear. Generically, there are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-23 Ugo Boscain , Grégoire Charlot , Roberta Ghezzi

Classical inequalities used in information theory such as those of de Bruijn, Fisher, and Kullback carry over from the setting of probability theory on Euclidean space to that of unimodular Lie groups. These are groups that posses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-02 Gregory S. Chirikjian

Let M be a real analytic Riemannian manifold. An adapted complex structure on TM is a complex structure on a neighborhood of the zero section such that the leaves of the Riemann foliation are complex submanifolds. This structure is called…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Vaqaas Aslam , Daniel M Burns, , Daniel Irvine

This paper explores the Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of the circle, namely $P(S^{1})$, the set of probability measures on the unit circle endowed with the 2-Wasserstein metric. Building on the foundational work of Otto,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues , Luiz A. B. San Martin

In the present paper, the flag curvature of invariant Randers metrics on homogeneous spaces and Lie groups is studied. We first give an explicit formula for the flag curvature of invariant Randers metrics arising from invariant Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-30 H. R. Salimi Moghaddam

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 discuss a Lie algebraic and differential geometry construction of solutions to some multidimensional nonlinear integrable systems describing diagonal metrics on Riemannian manifolds, in particular those of zero and constant curvature.…

solv-int · Physics 2016-09-08 A. V. Razumov , M. V. Saveliev

Each sub-Riemannian geometry with bracket generating distribution enjoys a background structure determined by the distribution itself. At the same time, those geometries with constant sub-Riemannian symbols determine a unique Cartan…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-05 D. Alekseevsky , A. Medvedev , J. Slovak

This paper presents a new performance bound for estimation problems where the parameter to estimate lies in a Riemannian manifold (a smooth manifold endowed with a Riemannian metric) and follows a given prior distribution. In this setup,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Florent Bouchard , Alexandre Renaux , Guillaume Ginolhac , Arnaud Breloy

We obtain new invariant Einstein metrics on the compact Lie groups $\SO(n)$ which are not naturally reductive. This is achieved by using the real flag manifolds $\SO(k_1+\cdots +k_p)/\SO(k_1)\times\cdots\times\SO(k_p)$ and by imposing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos , Yusuke Sakane , Marina Statha