Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
2002-10-09
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
43 pages
Scientific paper
Let N be a nilpotent Lie group and let S be an invariant geometric structure on N (cf. symplectic, complex or hypercomplex). We define a left invariant Riemannian metric on N compatible with S to be "minimal", if it minimizes the norm of the invariant part of the Ricci tensor among all compatible metrics with the same scalar curvature. We prove that minimal metrics (if any) are unique up to isometry and scaling, they develop soliton solutions for the invariant Ricci flow and are characterized as the critical points of a natural variational problem. The uniqueness allows us to distinguish geometric structures with Riemannian data, giving rise to a great deal of invariants. Our approach proposes to vary Lie brackets and our main tool is the moment map for the action of a reductive Lie group on the algebraic variety of all Lie algebras, which we show to coincide with the Ricci operator. We therefore can use strong results from geometric invariant theory to study compatible metrics and the moduli space of isomorphism classes of geometric structures.
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