Lorentzian compact manifolds: Isometries and geodesics

In this work we investigate families of compact Lorentzian manifolds in dimension four. We show that every lightlike geodesic on such spaces is periodic, while there are closed and non-closed spacelike and timelike geodesics. Also their isometry groups are computed. We also show that there is a non...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: del Barco, Viviana, Ovando, Gabriela Paola, Vittone, Francisco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/29856
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/29856
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Lorentz Manifolds
Closed Geodesics
Isometry Actions
Compact Homogeneous Manifolds
Solvable Lie Groups
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:In this work we investigate families of compact Lorentzian manifolds in dimension four. We show that every lightlike geodesic on such spaces is periodic, while there are closed and non-closed spacelike and timelike geodesics. Also their isometry groups are computed. We also show that there is a non trivial action by isometries of H3(R) on the nilmanifold S 1 × (Γk\H3(R)) for Γk, a lattice of H3(R).