Non-reductive Homogeneous Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds of Dimension Four

Fels, M. E. ; Renner, A. G.

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 58 (2006) no. 2, pp. 282-311

Résumé

A method, due to Élie Cartan, is used to give an algebraic classification of the non-reductive homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of dimension four. Only one case with Lorentz signature can be Einstein without having constant curvature, and two cases with (2, 2) signature are Einstein of which one is Ricci-flat. If a four-dimensional non-reductive homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifold is simply connected, then it is shown to be diffeomorphic to ${{\mathbb{R}}^{4}}$ . All metrics for the simply connected non-reductive Einstein spaces are given explicitly. There are no non-reductive pseudo-Riemannian homogeneous spaces of dimension two and none of dimension three with connected isotropy subgroup.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-2006-012-1

Mots-clés : 53C30, Homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian, Einstein space

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