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Title: Lorentzian homogeneous structures with indecomposable holonomy

Abstract: For a Lorentzian homogeneous space, we study how algebraic conditions on the isotropy group affect the geometry and curvature of the homogeneous space. More specifically, we prove that a Lorentzian locally homogeneous space is locally isometric to a plane wave if it admits an Ambrose--Singer connection with indecomposable, non-irreducible holonomy. This generalises several existing results that require a certain algebraic type of the torsion of the Ambrose--Singer connection and moreover is in analogy to the fact that a Lorentzian homogeneous space with irreducible isotropy has constant sectional curvature.
Comments: 30 pages, comments welcome
Subjects: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
MSC classes: Primary 53C30, Secondary 53C29, 53C50, 53B30
Cite as: arXiv:2404.17470 [math.DG]
  (or arXiv:2404.17470v1 [math.DG] for this version)

Submission history

From: Thomas Leistner [view email]
[v1] Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:11:25 GMT (35kb)

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