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Algebraic properties of bounded Killing vector fields

Differential Geometry 2019-04-25 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a connected Riemannian manifold MM where a connected Lie group GG acts effectively and isometrically. Assume Xg=Lie(G)X\in\mathfrak{g}=\mathrm{Lie}(G) defines a bounded Killing vector field, we find some crucial algebraic properties of the decomposition X=Xr+XsX=X_r+X_s according to a Levi decomposition g=r(g)+s\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{r}(\mathfrak{g})+\mathfrak{s}, where r(g)\mathfrak{r}(\mathfrak{g}) is the radical, and s=scsnc\mathfrak{s}=\mathfrak{s}_c\oplus\mathfrak{s}_{nc} is a Levi subalgebra. The decomposition X=Xr+XsX=X_r+X_s coincides with the abstract Jordan decomposition of XX, and is unique in the sense that it does not depend on the choice of s\mathfrak{s}. By these properties, we prove that the eigenvalues of ad(X):gg\mathrm{ad}(X):\mathfrak{g}\rightarrow\mathfrak{g} are all imaginary. Furthermore, when M=G/HM=G/H is a Riemannian homogeneous space, we can completely determine all bounded Killing vector fields induced by vectors in g\mathfrak{g}. We prove that the space of all these bounded Killing vector fields, or equivalently the space of all bounded vectors in g\mathfrak{g} for G/HG/H, is a compact Lie subalgebra, such that its semi-simple part is the ideal csc(r(g))\mathfrak{c}_{\mathfrak{s}_c}(\mathfrak{r}(\mathfrak{g})) of g\mathfrak{g}, and its Abelian part is the sum of cc(r(g))(snc)\mathfrak{c}_{\mathfrak{c}(\mathfrak{r}(\mathfrak{g}))} (\mathfrak{s}_{nc}) and all two-dimensional irreducible ad(r(g))\mathrm{ad}(\mathfrak{r}(\mathfrak{g}))-representations in cc(n)(snc)\mathfrak{c}_{\mathfrak{c}(\mathfrak{n})}(\mathfrak{s}_{nc}) corresponding to nonzero imaginary weights, i.e. R\mathbb{R}-linear functionals λ:r(g)r(g)/n(g)R1\lambda:\mathfrak{r}(\mathfrak{g})\rightarrow \mathfrak{r}(\mathfrak{g})/\mathfrak{n}(\mathfrak{g}) \rightarrow\mathbb{R}\sqrt{-1}, where n(g)\mathfrak{n}(\mathfrak{g}) is the nilradical.

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@article{arxiv.1904.08710,
  title  = {Algebraic properties of bounded Killing vector fields},
  author = {Ming Xu and Yu. G. Nikonorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08710},
  year   = {2019}
}
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