Quantum group of orientation-preserving Riemannian isometries

We formulate a quantum group analogue of the group of orientation-preserving Riemannian isometries of a compact Riemannian spin manifold, more generally, of a (possibly R-twisted and of compact type) spectral triple. The main advantage of this formulation, which is directly in terms of the Dirac operator, is that it does not need the existence of any ‘good’ Laplacian as in our previous works on quantum isometry groups. Several interesting examples, including those coming from Rieffel-type deformation as well as the equivariant spectral triples on SU_μ(2) and are discussed.     

Uniqueness of left invariant symplectic structures on the affine Lie group

We show the uniqueness of left invariant symplectic structures on the affine Lie group under the adjoint action of , by giving an explicit formula of the Pfaffian of the skew symmetric matrix naturally associated with , and also by giving an unexpected identity on it which relates two left invariant symplectic structures. As an application of this result, we classify maximum rank left invariant Poisson structures on the simple Lie groups and . This result is a generalization of Stolin's classification of constant solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation for and .

     

Locally symmetric left invariant Riemannian metrics on 3‐dimensional Lie groups

In this paper, we use the powerful tool Milnor bases to determine all the locally symmetric left invariant Riemannian metrics up to automorphism, on 3‐dimensional connected and simply connected Lie groups, by solving system of polynomial equations of constants structure of each Lie algebra . Moreover, we show that E ₀(2) is the only 3‐dimensional Lie group with locally symmetric left invariant Riemannian metrics which are not symmetric.     

Lie 3-algebras with invariant metric

We investigate the relation between linear Nambu algebras of order 3 and finite dimensional Lie 3-algebras with invariant metric.     

Homogeneous Ricci solitons on four-dimensional Lie groups with a left-invariant Riemannian metric

Homogeneous Ricci solitons on four-dimensional Lie groups with a left-invariant Riemannian metric are studied. The absence of nontrivial homogeneous invariant Ricci solitons is proved. The algebraic soliton equations are solved in terms of the structure constants of the metric Lie algebra.     

The geodesic flow of a sub-Riemannian metric on a solvable Lie group

We consider the sub-Riemannian problem on the three-dimensional solvable Lie group SOLV⁺. The problem is based on constructing a Hamiltonian structure for a given metric by the Pontryagin Maximum Principle.     

The group of isometries of a locally compact metric space with one end

In this note we study the dynamics of the natural evaluation action of the group of isometries G of a locally compact metric space (X,d) with one end. Using the notion of pseudo-components introduced by S. Gao and A.S. Kechris we show that X has only finitely many pseudo-components exactly one of which is not compact and G acts properly on this pseudo-component. The complement of the non-compact component is a compact subset of X and G may fail to act properly on it.     

Ricci structure and volume growth for left invariant Riemannian metrics on nilpotent and some solvable Lie groups

We discuss left invariant Riemannian metrics on Lie groups, and the Ricci structures they induce. A computational approach is used to manipulate the curvature tensors, and construct perturbations which preserve the Ricci structure but not the (algebraic) Lie structure. We show that this method can lead to significant changes in the growth of volume. We also show that this approach may be used to reduce the complexity of some curvature computations in Lie groups.     

Markov processes invariant under a Lie group action

We show that a Markov process in a manifold invariant under the action of a compact Lie group K$K$ induces a Lévy process in each K$K$-orbit by “forcing” it to run in the orbit.     

Foliations invariant under Lie group transverse actions

In this paper we study (smooth and holomorphic) foliations which are invariant under transverse actions of Lie groups. Authors’ address: Alexandre Behague and Bruno Scárdua, Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68530, 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil     

A remark on left invariant metrics on compact Lie groups

We show that a left invariant metric on a compact Lie group G with Lie algebra has some negative sectional curvature if it is obtained by enlarging a biinvariant metric on a subalgebra , unless the semi-simple part of is an ideal of This answers a question raised in [8]. Received: 7 May 2007     

On a class of Lie groups with a left invariant flat pseudo-metric

The study of the Lie groups with a left invariant flat pseudo-metric is equivalent to the study of the left-symmetric algebras with a nondegenerate left invariant bilinear form. In this paper, we consider such a structure satisfying an additional condition that there is a decomposition into a direct sum of the underlying vector spaces of two isotropic subalgebras. Moreover, there is a new underlying algebraic structure, namely, a special L-dendriform algebra and then there is a bialgebra structure which is equivalent to the above structure. The study of coboundary cases leads to a construction from an analogue of the classical Yang–Baxter equation.     

Globalization of the partial isometries of metric spaces and local approximation of the group of isometries of Urysohn space

We prove the equivalence of the two important facts about finite metric spaces and universal Urysohn metric spaces U, namely Theorems A and G: Theorem A (Approximation): The group of isometry ISO(U) contains everywhere dense locally finite subgroup; Theorem G (Globalization): For each finite metric space F there exists another finite metric space and isometric imbedding j of F to such that isometry j induces the imbedding of the group monomorphism of the group of isometries of the space F to the group of isometries of space and each partial isometry of F can be extended up to global isometry in . The fact that Theorem G, is true was announced in 2005 by author without proof, and was proved by S. Solecki in [S. Solecki, Extending partial isometries, Israel J. Math. 150 (2005) 315-332] (see also [V. Pestov, The isometry group of the Urysohn space as a Lévy group, Topology Appl. 154 (10) (2007) 2173-2184; V. Pestov, A theorem of Hrushevski-Solecki-Vershik applied to uniform and coarse embeddings of the Urysohn metric space, math/0702207]) based on the previous complicate results of other authors. The theorem is generalization of the Hrushevski's theorem about the globalization of the partial isomorphisms of finite graphs. We intend to give a constructive proof in the same spirit for metric spaces elsewhere. We also give the strengthening of homogeneity of Urysohn space and in the last paragraph we gave a short survey of the various constructions of Urysohn space including the new proof of the construction of shift invariant universal distance matrix from [P. Cameron, A. Vershik, Some isometry groups of Urysohn spaces, Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 143 (1-3) (2006) 70-78].     

Constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in a Lie group with a bi-invariant metric

Given an orientable hypersurface M of a Lie group with a bi-invariant metric we consider the map N : M ⁿ that translates the normal vector field of M to the identity, which is a natural extension of the usual Gauss map of hypersurfaces in Euclidean spaces; it is proved that the Laplacian of N satisfies a formula similar to that satisfied by the usual Gauss map. One may then conclude that M has constant mean curvature (cmc) if and only if N is harmonic; some other aplications to cmc hypersurfaces of are also obtained.     

具有双不变度量的李群中超曲面的广义Gauss映照

讨论了具有双不变度量的李群中超曲面的广义Gauss映照,并且给出广义Gauss映照是相对仿射的一些条件.