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arxiv: 1211.1111 · v5 · pith:MC6OBWO7new · submitted 2012-11-06 · 🧮 math.DG · math.AG

On the Geometry of Flat Pseudo-Riemannian Homogeneous Spaces

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keywords gammaorbitsabelianflathomogeneousmetricnon-degeneratepseudo-riemannian
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Let $M$ be complete flat pseudo-Riemannian homogeneous manifold and $\Gamma\subset\Iso(\RR^n_s)$ its fundamental group. We show that $M$ is a trivial fiber bundle $G/\Gamma\to M\to\RR^{n-k}$, where $G$ is the Zariski closure of $\Gamma$ in $\Iso(\RR^n_s)$. Moreover, we show that the $G$-orbits in $\RR^n_s$ are affinely diffeomorphic to $G$ endowed with the (0)-connection. If the induced metric on the $G$-orbits is non-degenerate, then $G$ (and hence $\Gamma$) has linear abelian holonomy. If additionally $G$ is not abelian, then $G$ contains a certain subgroup of dimension 6. In particular, for non-abelian $G$ orbits with non-degenerate metric can appear only if $\dim G\geq 6$.

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