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Sibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, Volume 53, Number 6, Pages 1292–1309
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This article is cited in 8 scientific papers (total in 8 papers)
Classification of compact Lorentzian $2$-orbifolds with noncompact full isometry groups
N. I. Zhukova, E. A. Rogozhkina Lobachevskii Nizhnii Novgorod State University, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia
Abstract:
Among closed Lorentzian surfaces, only flat tori can admit noncompact full isometry groups. Moreover, for every $n\ge3$ the standard $n$-dimensional flat torus equipped with canonical metric has a noncompact full isometry Lie group. We show that this fails for $n=2$ and classify the flat Lorentzian metrics on the torus with a noncompact full isometry Lie group. We also prove that every two-dimensional Lorentzian orbifold is very good. This implies the existence of a unique smooth compact $2$-orbifold, called the pillow, admitting Lorentzian metrics with a noncompact full isometry group. We classify the metrics of this type and make some examples.
Keywords:
Lorentzian orbifold, Lorentzian surface, isometry group, Anosov automorphism of the torus.
Received: 22.11.2011
Citation:
N. I. Zhukova, E. A. Rogozhkina, “Classification of compact Lorentzian $2$-orbifolds with noncompact full isometry groups”, Sibirsk. Mat. Zh., 53:6 (2012), 1292–1309; Siberian Math. J., 53:6 (2012), 1037–1050
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