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Geodesic Bases for Lie Algebras

Differential Geometry 2013-12-10 v1

Abstract

For finite dimensional real Lie algebras, we investigate the existence of an inner product having a basis comprised of geodesic elements. We give several existence and non-existence results in certain cases: unimodular solvable Lie algebras having an abelian nilradical, algebras having an abelian derived algebra, algebras having a codimension one ideal of a particular kind, nonunimodular algebras of dimension $\leq 4$, and unimodular algebras of dimension 5.

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@article{arxiv.1312.2186,
  title  = {Geodesic Bases for Lie Algebras},
  author = {Grant Cairns and Ana Hinić Galić and Yuri Nikolayevsky and Ioannis Tsartsaflis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2186},
  year   = {2013}
}

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18 pages

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