arXiv research

Study on nilpotent Lie algebras with specific metrics.

Criterion for nilpotent Lie groups to have nilsolitons.

The study explores indefinite nilsolitons and Einstein solvmanifolds, revealing new geometric properties.

In this brief note, we clarify that a Ricci nilsoliton cannot be of gradient type.

New Einstein solvmanifolds constructed without using nilsolitons.

In 2002, using a variational method, Lauret classified five-dimensional nilsolitons. In this work, using the algebraic Ricci soliton equation, we obtain the same classification. We show that, among ten classes of five-dimensional nilmanifolds, seven classes admit Ricci soliton structure. In any case, the derivation whi…

The aim of this paper is to classify Ricci soliton metrics on $7$-dimensional nilpotent Lie groups. It can be considered as a continuation of our paper in [Transformation Groups, Volume 17, Number 3 (2012), 639--656]. To this end, we use the classification of $7$-dimensional real nilpotent Lie algebras given by Ming-Pe…

Up to now, the only known examples of homogeneous nontrivial Ricci soliton metrics are the so called solsolitons, i.e. certain left invariant metrics on simple connected solvable Lie groups. In this paper, we describe the moduli space of solsolitons of dimension less or equal than 6, up to isomorphism and scaling. We s…

A 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra n is said to be of type (p,q)if dim(n)=p+q and dim([n,n])=p. By considering a class of 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras naturally attached to graphs, we prove that there exist indecomposable, 2-step nilpotent Lie groups of type (p,q) which do not admit a nilsoliton metric for every pair (p,q…

The paper constructs pseudo-Iwasawa solvmanifolds with Killing spinors.

We consider a modified Ricci flow equation whose stationary solutions include Einstein and Ricci soliton metrics, and we study the linear stability of those solutions relative to the flow. After deriving various criteria that imply linear stability, we turn our attention to left-invariant soliton metrics on (non-compac…

The paper studies quaternionic Kähler manifolds and their fibration by solvmanifolds.

All known examples of nontrivial homogeneous Ricci solitons are left-invariant metrics on simply connected solvable Lie groups whose Ricci operator is a multiple of the identity modulo derivations (called solsolitons, and nilsolitons in the nilpotent case). The tools from geometric invariant theory used to study Einste…

Study on metrics on specific nilmanifolds, finding new examples and properties.

We show obstructions to the existence of a coclosed $G_2$-structure on a Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$ of dimension seven with non-trivial center. In particular, we prove that if there exist a Lie algebra epimorphism from $\mathfrak g$ to a six-dimensional Lie algebra $\mathfrak h$, with kernel contained in the center of $…

It is known that all left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on $H_3$ are algebraic Ricci solitons. We consider generalizations of Riemannian $H$-type, namely pseudo$H$-type and $pH$-type. We study algebraic Ricci solitons of left-invariant Lorentzian metrics on 2-step nilpotent Lie groups of both types.

The purpose of the present expository paper is to give an account of the recent progress and present status of the classification of solvable Lie groups admitting an Einstein left invariant Riemannian metric, the only known examples so far of noncompact Einstein homogeneous manifolds. The problem turns to be equivalent…

We bring new insights into the long-standing Alekseevskii conjecture, namely that any connected homogeneous Einstein manifold of negative scalar curvature is diffeomorphic to a Euclidean space, by proving structural results which are actually valid for any homogeneous expanding Ricci soliton, and generalize many well-k…

A 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra n is called nonsingular if ad(X): n --> [n,n] is onto for any X not in [n,n]. We explore nonsingular algebras in several directions, including the classification problem (isomorphism invariants), the existence of canonical inner products (nilsolitons) and their automorphism groups (maxima…

A Riemannian manifold (M,g) is said to be Einstein if its Ricci tensor satisfies ric(g) = cg, for some real number c. In the homogeneous case, a problem that is still open is the so called Alekseevskii Conjecture. This conjecture says that any homogeneous Einstein space with negative scalar curvature (i.e. c < 0) is a …

New Einstein metrics found on specific Lie algebras.

We study the existence of left invariant closed $G_2$-structures defining a Ricci soliton metric on simply connected nonabelian nilpotent Lie groups. For each one of these $G_2$-structures, we show long time existence and uniqueness of solution for the Laplacian flow on the noncompact manifold. Moreover, considering th…

Paper classifies Schouten-like metrics on 5D nilpotent Lie groups.