scholarly journals ON SOME HYPERCOMPLEX 4-DIMENSIONAL LIE GROUPS OF CONSTANT SCALAR CURVATURE

2009 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 619-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAMID REZA SALIMI MOGHADDAM

In this paper we study sectional curvature of invariant hyper-Hermitian metrics on simply connected 4-dimensional real Lie groups admitting invariant hypercomplex structure. We give the Levi–Civita connections and explicit formulas for computing sectional curvatures of these metrics and show that all these spaces have constant scalar curvature. We also show that they are flat or they have only non-negative or non-positive sectional curvature.

2011 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 501-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAMID REZA SALIMI MOGHADDAM

In this paper we study the geometry of simply connected two-step nilpotent Lie groups of dimension five. We give the Levi–Civita connection, curvature tensor, sectional and scalar curvatures of these spaces and show that they have constant negative scalar curvature. Also we show that the only space which admits left-invariant Randers metric of Berwald type has three-dimensional center. In this case the explicit formula for computing flag curvature is obtained and it is shown that flag curvature and sectional curvature have the same sign.


2002 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
FUQUAN FANG

Let M be a simply connected compact 6-manifold of positive sectional curvature. If the identity component of the isometry group contains a simple Lie subgroup, we prove that M is diffeomorphic to one of the five manifolds listed in Theorem A.


1978 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1087-1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Simon

The following is our main result.(A) THEOREM. Let (M, g) be a closed connected Einstein space, n = dim M ≧ 2 (with constant scalar curvature R). Let K0 be the lower bound of the sectional curvature. Then either (M, g) is isometrically diffeomorphic to a sphere and the first nonzero eigenvalue ƛ1of the Laplacian fulfils


2019 ◽  
Vol 169 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID GONZÁLEZ-ÁLVARO ◽  
MARCUS ZIBROWIUS

AbstractWe extend two known existence results to simply connected manifolds with positive sectional curvature: we show that there exist pairs of simply connected positively-curved manifolds that are tangentially homotopy equivalent but not homeomorphic, and we deduce that an open manifold may admit a pair of non-homeomorphic simply connected and positively-curved souls. Examples of such pairs are given by explicit pairs of Eschenburg spaces. To deduce the second statement from the first, we extend our earlier work on the stable converse soul question and show that it has a positive answer for a class of spaces that includes all Eschenburg spaces.


2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (04) ◽  
pp. 1540006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Cernea ◽  
Daniel Guan

In the process of finding Einstein metrics in dimension n ≥ 3, we can search critical metrics for the scalar curvature functional in the space of the fixed-volume metrics of constant scalar curvature on a closed oriented manifold. This leads to a system of PDEs (which we call the Fischer–Marsden Equation, after a conjecture concerning this system) for scalar functions, involving the linearization of the scalar curvature. The Fischer–Marsden conjecture said that if the equation admits a solution, the underlying Riemannian manifold is Einstein. Counter-examples are known by O. Kobayashi and J. Lafontaine. However, almost all the counter-examples are homogeneous. Multiple solutions to this system yield Killing vector fields. We show that the dimension of the solution space W can be at most n+1, with equality implying that (M, g) is a sphere with constant sectional curvatures. Moreover, we show that the identity component of the isometry group has a factor SO(W). We also show that geometries admitting Fischer–Marsden solutions are closed under products with Einstein manifolds after a rescaling. Therefore, we obtain a lot of non-homogeneous counter-examples to the Fischer–Marsden conjecture. We then prove that all the homogeneous manifold M with a solution are in this case. Furthermore, we also proved that a related Besse conjecture is true for the compact homogeneous manifolds.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (763) ◽  
pp. 129-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaut Delcroix

AbstractWe introduce a class of almost homogeneous varieties contained in the class of spherical varieties and containing horospherical varieties as well as complete symmetric varieties. We develop Kähler geometry on these varieties, with applications to canonical metrics in mind, as a generalization of the Guillemin–Abreu–Donaldson geometry of toric varieties. Namely we associate convex functions with Hermitian metrics on line bundles, and express the curvature form in terms of this function, as well as the corresponding Monge–Ampère volume form and scalar curvature. We provide an expression for the Mabuchi functional and derive as an application a combinatorial sufficient condition of properness similar to one obtained by Li, Zhou and Zhu on group compactifications. This finally translates to a sufficient criterion of existence of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics thanks to the recent work of Chen and Cheng. It yields infinitely many new examples of explicit Kähler classes admitting cscK metrics.


2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 1650080
Author(s):  
Daniel Guan ◽  
Paul Cernéa

In the process of finding Einstein metrics in dimension [Formula: see text], we can search metrics critical for the scalar curvature among fixed-volume metrics of constant scalar curvature on a closed oriented manifold. This leads to a system of PDEs (which we call the Fischer–Marsden Equation, after a conjecture concerning this system) for scalar functions, involving the linearization of the scalar curvature. The Fischer–Marsden conjecture said that, if the equation admits a solution, the underlying Riemannian manifold is Einstein. Counter-examples are known by Kobayashi and Lafontaine, and by our first paper. Multiple solutions to this system yield Killing vector fields. We showed in our first paper that the dimension of the solution space [Formula: see text] can be at most [Formula: see text], with equality implying that [Formula: see text] is a sphere with constant sectional curvatures. Moreover, we also showed there that the identity component of the isometry group has a factor [Formula: see text]. In this second paper, we apply our results in the first paper to show that either [Formula: see text] is a standard sphere or the dimension of the space of Fischer–Marsden solutions can be at most [Formula: see text].


1998 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 105-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuhiro Shiohama ◽  
Hongwei Xu

Abstract.Making use of 1-forms and geometric inequalities we prove the rigidity property of complete submanifolds Mn with parallel mean curvature normal in a complete and simply connected Riemannian (n+p) -manifold Nn+p with positive sectional curvature. For given integers n, p and for a nonnegative constant H we find a positive number T(n,p) ∈ (0,1) with the property that if the sectional curvature of N is pinched in [T(n,p), 1], and if the squared norm of the second fundamental form is in a certain interval, then Nn+p is isometric to the standard unit (n + p)-sphere. As a consequence, such an M is congruent to one of the five models as seen in our Main Theorem.


Author(s):  
A. L. Carey ◽  
W. Moran

AbstractLet G be a second countable locally compact group possessing a normal subgroup N with G/N abelian. We prove that if G/N is discrete then G has T1 primitive ideal space if and only if the G-quasiorbits in Prim N are closed. This condition on G-quasiorbits arose in Pukanzky's work on connected and simply connected solvable Lie groups where it is equivalent to the condition of Auslander and Moore that G be type R on N (-nilradical). Using an abstract version of Pukanzky's arguments due to Green and Pedersen we establish that if G is a connected and simply connected Lie group then Prim G is T1 whenever G-quasiorbits in [G, G] are closed.


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