Indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces II

Details Indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces II Indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces II

2010-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/1004.1786v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

34 pages

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Having developed a description of indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces by corresponding infinitesimal objects in the preceding paper we now study the classification problem for these algebraic objects. In most cases the transvection group of an indefinite extrinsic symmetric space is not semisimple, which makes the classification difficult. We use the recently developed method of quadratic extensions for (h,K)-invariant metric Lie algebras to tackle this problem. We obtain a one-to-one correspondence between isometry classes of extrinsic symmetric spaces and a certain cohomology set. This allows a systematic construction of extrinsic symmetric spaces and explicit classification results, e.g., if the metric of the embedded manifold or the ambient space has a small index. We will illustrate this by classifying all Lorentzian extrinsic symmetric spaces.

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