Actions of Noncompact Semisimple Groups on Lorentz Manifolds

The above title is the same, but with “semisimple” instead of “simple,” as that of a notice by Nadine Kowalsky. There, she announced many theorems on the subject of actions of simple Lie groups preserving a Lorentz structure. Unfortunately, she published proofs for essentially only half of the announced results before her premature death. Here, using a different, geometric approach, we generalize her results to the semisimple case, and give proofs of all her announced results. Received: May 2006, Revision: February 2007, Accepted: March 2007     

Transitive Actions on Lorentz Manifolds with Noncompact Stabilizer

If a topological group G acts on a topological space X, then we say that the action is orbit nonproper provided that, for some xX, the orbit map ggx:GX is nonproper. We consider the problem of classifying the connected, simply connected real Lie groups G admitting a locally faithful, orbit nonproper, isometric action on a connected Lorentz manifold. In an earlier paper, we found three collections of groups such that G admits such an action iff G is in one of the three collections. In another paper, we effectively described the first collection. In this paper, we show that the second collection contains a small, effectively described collection of groups, and, aside from those, it is contained in the union of the first and third collections. Finally, in a third paper, we effectively describe the third collection, thus solving the stated problem.     

Dynamics of Simple Lie Groups on Lorentz Manifolds

We give an alternate proof of N. Kowalsky's theorem describing the collection of connected simple Lie groups with finite center which admit a nontrivial, nonproper action by isometries of a connected Lorentz manifold.     

Actions of Compact Groups on Compact (4,m)-Quadrangles

We establish sharp upper bounds for the dimensions of compact groups which act effectively on finite-dimensional compact generalized quadrangles with four-dimensional point rows. These bounds are attained, or indeed approached, only for explicitly known actions of Lie groups on Moufang quadrangles.     

Geodesics in Heisenberg Groups

We obtain equations of geodesic lines in Heisenberg groups H²ⁿ⁺¹and prove that the ideal boundary of the Heisenberg group H²ⁿ⁺¹is a sphere S^2n-1with a natural CR-structure and corresponding Carnot-Carathéodory metric, i.e. it is a one-point compactification of the Heisenberg group H^2n-1of the next dimension in a row.     

Isometric Splitting for Actions of Simple Lie Groups on Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds

We study the action of a connected noncompact simple Lie group G on a connected finite volume pseudo-Riemannian manifold M. Our main result provides a geometric splitting of the metric on such M that involves natural metrics on G. For suitable G such splitting is a warped product. For any G the splitting turns out to be a direct product in the ergodic case.     

Introduction to Actions of Discrete Groups on Pseudo-Riemannian Homogeneous Manifolds

Isometric actions of discrete groups are not always properly discontinuous for pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. This short exposition gives an up-to-date survey of some of the basic questions about discontinuous groups for pseudo-Riemannian homogeneous spaces, on which a rapid development has been made since late 1980s.The first half includes an elementary geometric motivation, the Calabi–Markus phenomenon, the discontinuous dual, and deformation. These topics are rebuilt on a criterion of properly discontinuous actions on homogeneous spaces of reductive groups, obtained by Kobayashi [Math. Ann. 1989] and generalized independently by Benoist [Ann. Math. 1996] and Kobayashi [J. Lie Theory 1996].The second half discusses the existence problem of compact Clifford–Klein forms of pseudo-Riemannian homogeneous spaces, for which many new methods from different areas have been recently employed. We examine these various approaches in some typical cases. We also point out that Zimmer's examples on SL(n)/SL(m) [J. Amer. Math. Soc. 1994] and Shalom's examples on SL(n)/SL(2) [Ann. Math. 2000] are readily obtained as special cases of Kobayashi's criterion [Duke Math. J. 1992], where the former uses ergodic theory and restrictions of unitary representations, respectively, while the latter uses cohomologies of discrete groups.The article also explains some open problems and conjectures.     

Problems on Bieberbach Groups and Flat Manifolds

We present about twenty conjectures, problems and questions about flat manifolds. Many of them build the bridges between the flat world and representation theory of the finite groups, hyperbolic geometry and dynamical systems. In memory of Charles B. Thomas     

可数sofic群的等距线性作用的维数

我们对复Banach空间上的可数sofic群的等距线性作用提出了一种新的维数,推广了复Banach空间上的可数顺从群的等距线性作用的Voiculescu维数,并且在可数sofic群的情形回答了Gromov的一个问题.     

Linear Representations of the Braid Groups of Some Manifolds

In this paper we prove that the braid group B_n(S²) of 2-sphere, mapping class group M(0,n) of the n-punctured 2-sphere and the braid group B₃(P²) of the projective plane are linear. Partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant number 02-01-01118).Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000) 20F28, 20F36, 20G35.     

Maximal Holonomy of Almost Bieberbach Groups for Heis5

Let Heis _2n+1 be the Heisenberg group of dimension 2n + 1 and M an infra-nilmanifold with Heis _2n+1-geometry. The fundamental group of M contains a cocompact lattice of Heis _2n+1 with index bounded above by a universal constant I _n+1, i.e., I _n+1 is the maximal order of the holonomy groups. We prove that I ₃ = 24. As an application we give an estimate for the volumes of finite volume non-compact complex hyperbolic 3-manifolds.     

紧黎曼对称空间到Grassmann流形的等变等距极小浸入

在本文中，我们利用李群及其表示理论作为主要工具，　讨论了紧黎曼对称空间到Ｇｒａｓｓｍａｎｎ　流形的等变等距极小浸入问题．     

H型群上的平均值公式及唯一延拓性

本文求得了H型群上次Laplace算子的基本解,并以此为基础,给出了平均值公式、Hardy型不等式、不确定原理及唯一延拓性．     

Gradient Estimates for the Heat Kernels in Higher Dimensional Heisenberg Groups

The author obtains sharp gradient estimates for the heat kernels in two kinds of higher dimensional Heisenberg groups -- the non-isotropic Heisenberg group and the Heisenberg type group Hn,m. The method used here relies on the positive property of the Bakry-Emery curvature F2 on the radial functions and some associated semigroup technics.     

Hardy-Type Inequalities on H-Type Groups andAnisotropic Heisenberg Groups

The author obtains some weighted Hardy-type inequalities on H-type groups and anisotropic Heisenberg groups. These inequalities generalize some recent results due to N. Garofalo, E. Lanconelli, I. Kombe and P. Niu et al.     

Pinched流形上等距群的几个性质

本文建立了Ｐｉｎｃｈｅｄ流形Ｘ上等距群Ｍ（Ｘ）中的Ｊｏｒｇｅｎｓｅｎ型不等式;证得了Ｍ（Ｘ）中非初等群的一个几何特征,得到了Ｍ（Ｘ）中子群的两个离散准则。     

Ergodic Actions of Semisimple Lie Groups on Compact Principal Bundles

Let G = SL(n, ?) (or, more generally, let G be a connected, noncompact, simple Lie group). For any compact Lie group K, it is easy to find a compact manifold M, such that there is a volume-preserving, connection-preserving, ergodic action of G on some smooth, principal K-bundle P over M. Can M can be chosen independent of K? We show that if M = H/Λ is a homogeneous space, and the action of G on M is by translations, then P must also be a homogeneous space H′Λ′. Consequently, there is a strong restriction on the groups K that can arise over this particular M.     

Actions symplectiques de groupes compacts (Symplectic Actions of Compact Groups)

For any symplectic action of a compact connected group on a compact connected symplectic manifold, we show that the intersection of the Weyl chamber with the image of the moment map is a closed convex polyhedron. This extends Atiyah–Guillemin–Sternberg–Kirwan's convexity theorems to non-Hamiltonian actions. As a consequence, we describe those symplectic actions of a torus which are coisotropic (or multiplicity free), i.e. which have at least one coisotropic orbit: they are the product of an Hamiltonian coisotropic action by an anhamiltonian one. The Hamiltonian coisotropic actions have already been described by Delzant thanks to the convex polyhedron. The anhamiltonian coisotropic actions are actions of a central torus on a symplectic nilmanifold. This text is written as an introduction to the theory of symplectic actions of compact groups since complete proofs of the preliminary classical results are given. An erratum to this article is available at .     

Inductive Algebras for Finite Heisenberg Groups

A characterization of the maximal abelian sub-algebras of matrix algebras that are normalized by the canonical representation of a finite Heisenberg group is given. Examples are constructed using a classification result for finite Heisenberg groups.     

海森堡群上薛定谔算子的黎斯位势的某些性质

设L=-△_(H~n)+V是Heisenberg群H~n上的Schr(o|¨)dinger算子,其中△_(H~n)为H~n上的次Laplacian,V≠0为满足逆H(o|¨)lder不等式的非负函数.本文研究H~n上Riesz位势I_α~L=L~(-α/2)在Campanato型空间A_L~β和Hardy型空间H_L~p上的某些性质.