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The notion of $Gamma$-symmetric space is a natural generalization of the classical notion of symmetric space based on $Z_2$-grading of Lie algebras. In our case, we consider homogeneous spaces $G/H$ such that the Lie algebra $g$ of $G$ admits a $Gamma$-grading where $Gamma$ is a finite abelian group. In this work we study Riemannian metrics and Lorentzian metrics on the Heisenberg group $mathbb{H}_3$ adapted to the symmetries of a $Gamma$-symmetric structure on $mathbb{H}_3$. We prove that the classification of $z$-symmetric Riemannian and Lorentzian metrics on $mathbb{H}_3$ corresponds to the classification of left-invariant Riemannian and Lorentzian metrics, up to isometry. We study also the $Z_2^k$-symmetric structures on $G/H$ when $G$ is the $(2p+1)$-dimensional Heisenberg group for $k geq 1$. This gives examples of non riemannian symmetric spaces. When $k geq 1$, we show that there exists a family of flat and torsion free affine connections adapted to the $Z_2^k$-symmetric structures.
The notion of $Gamma$-symmetric space is a natural generalization of the classical notion of symmetric space based on $z_2$-grading of Lie algebras. In our case, we consider homogeneous spaces $G/H$ such that the Lie algebra $g$ of $G$ admits a $Gamma$-grading where $Gamma$ is a finite abelian group. In this work we study Riemannian metrics and Lorentzian metrics on the Heisenberg group $mathbb{H}_3$ adapted to the symmetries of a $Gamma$-symmetric structure on $mathbb{H}_3$. We prove that the classification of $z_2^2$-symmetric Riemannian and Lorentzian metrics on $mathbb{H}_3$ corresponds to the classification of left invariant Riemannian and Lorentzian metrics, up to isometries. This gives examples of non-symmetric Lorentzian homogeneous spaces.
Let $G$ be a connected, simply-connected, compact simple Lie group. In this paper, we show that the isometry group of $G$ with a left-invariant pseudo-Riemannan metric is compact. Furthermore, the identity component of the isometry group is compact if $G$ is not simply-connected.
The theory of harmonic vector fields on Riemannian manifolds is generalised to pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. Harmonic conformal gradient fields on pseudo-Euclidean hyperquadrics are classified up to congruence, as are harmonic Killing fields on pseudo-Riemannian quadrics. A para-Kaehler twisted anti-isometry is used to correlate harmonic vector fields on the quadrics of neutral signature.
We study nice nilpotent Lie algebras admitting a diagonal nilsoliton metric. We classify nice Riemannian nilsolitons up to dimension $9$. For general signature, we show that determining whether a nilpotent nice Lie algebra admits a nilsoliton metric reduces to a linear problem together with a system of as many polynomial equations as the corank of the root matrix. We classify nice nilsolitons of any signature: in dimension $leq 7$; in dimension $8$ for corank $leq 1$; in dimension $9$ for corank zero.
We exhibit several families of Jacobi-Videv pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which are not Einstein. We also exhibit Jacobi-Videv algebraic curvature tensors where the Ricci operator defines an almost complex structure.