Lorentzian Flat Lie Groups Admitting a Timelike Left-Invariant Killing Vector Field
Abstract
We call a connected Lie group endowed with a left-invariant Lorentzian flat metric Lorentzian flat Lie group. In this Note, we determine all Lorentzian flat Lie groups admitting a timelike left-invariant Killing vector field. We show that these Lie groups are 2-solvable and unimodular and hence geodesically complete. Moreover, we show that a Lorentzian flat Lie group admits a timelike left-invariant Killing vector field if and only if admits a left-invariant Riemannian metric which has the same Levi-Civita connection of . Finally, we give an useful characterization of left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian flat metrics on Lie groups satisfying the property: for any couple of left invariant vector fields and their Lie bracket is a linear combination of and .
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@article{arxiv.1311.6174,
title = {Lorentzian Flat Lie Groups Admitting a Timelike Left-Invariant Killing Vector Field},
author = {Hicham Lebzioui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6174},
year = {2013}
}