Killing's equations for invariant metrics on Lie groups

Firas Hindeleh; Gerard Thompson

doi:10.3934/jgm.2011.3.323

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2011, Volume 3, Issue 3: 323-335. Doi: 10.3934/jgm.2011.3.323

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Killing's equations for invariant metrics on Lie groups

Firas Hindeleh^1, and
Gerard Thompson^2,

1.
Grand Valley State University, 1 Campus Dr., Allendale, MI 49401
2.
The University of Toledo, 2801 W Bancroft St., Toledo, OH 43606

Received: September 30, 2010

Revised: April 30, 2011

Published: August 2011

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This article is the first in a series that will investigate symmetry and curvature properties of a right-invariant metric on a Lie group. This paper will consider Lie groups in dimension two and three and will focus on the solutions of Killing's equations. A striking result is that several of the three-dimensional Lie groups turn out to be spaces of constant curvature.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 22E60, 53B21, 22E27; Secondary: 57S99.

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