Compact Riemannian Manifolds with Homogeneous Geodesics

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2009-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/0904.3592v2

SIGMA 5 (2009), 093, 16 pages

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

Scientific paper

10.3842/SIGMA.2009.093

A homogeneous Riemannian space $(M= G/H,g)$ is called a geodesic orbit space (shortly, GO-space) if any geodesic is an orbit of one-parameter subgroup of the isometry group $G$. We study the structure of compact GO-spaces and give some sufficient conditions for existence and non-existence of an invariant metric $g$ with homogeneous geodesics on a homogeneous space of a compact Lie group $G$. We give a classification of compact simply connected GO-spaces $(M = G/H,g)$ of positive Euler characteristic. If the group $G$ is simple and the metric $g$ does not come from a bi-invariant metric of $G$, then $M$ is one of the flag manifolds $M_1=SO(2n+1)/U(n)$ or $M_2= Sp(n)/U(1)\cdot Sp(n-1)$ and $g$ is any invariant metric on $M$ which depends on two real parameters. In both cases, there exists unique (up to a scaling) symmetric metric $g_0$ such that $(M,g_0)$ is the symmetric space $M = SO(2n+2)/U(n+1)$ or, respectively, $\mathbb{C}P^{2n-1}$. The manifolds $M_1$, $M_2$ are weakly symmetric spaces.

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