On the isometry groups of invariant Lorentzian metrics on the Heisenberg group

DOI10.1007/s00009-013-0312-yzbMath1318.53075OpenAlexW2139358565MaRDI QIDQ2255088

Viviana del Barco, Francisco Vittone, Gabriela Paola Ovando

Publication date: 6 February 2015

Published in: Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00009-013-0312-y

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupLie groupspseudo-Riemannian spacesnaturally reductive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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