{"title":"Pseudo-Conformal actions of the Möbius group","authors":"M. Belraouti , M. Deffaf , Y. Raffed , A. Zeghib","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102070","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study compact connected pseudo-Riemannian manifolds <span><math><mo>(</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>g</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> on which the conformal group <span><math><mi>Conf</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>g</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> acts essentially and transitively. We prove, in particular, that if the non-compact semi-simple part of <span><math><mi>Conf</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>g</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> is the Möbius group, then <span><math><mo>(</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>g</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> is conformally flat.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 102070"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926224523000967","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We study compact connected pseudo-Riemannian manifolds on which the conformal group acts essentially and transitively. We prove, in particular, that if the non-compact semi-simple part of is the Möbius group, then is conformally flat.
期刊介绍:
Differential Geometry and its Applications publishes original research papers and survey papers in differential geometry and in all interdisciplinary areas in mathematics which use differential geometric methods and investigate geometrical structures. The following main areas are covered: differential equations on manifolds, global analysis, Lie groups, local and global differential geometry, the calculus of variations on manifolds, topology of manifolds, and mathematical physics.