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Title: Geodesically equivalent metrics on homogenous spaces (English)
Author: Bokan, Neda
Author: Šukilović, Tijana
Author: Vukmirović, Srdjan
Language: English
Journal: Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal
ISSN: 0011-4642 (print)
ISSN: 1572-9141 (online)
Volume: 69
Issue: 4
Year: 2019
Pages: 945-954
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: Two metrics on a manifold are geodesically equivalent if the sets of their unparameterized geodesics coincide. We show that if two $G$-invariant metrics of arbitrary signature on homogenous space $G/H$ are geodesically equivalent, they are affinely equivalent, i.e. they have the same Levi-Civita connection. We also prove that the existence of nonproportional, geodesically equivalent, $G$-invariant metrics on homogenous space $G/H$ implies that their holonomy algebra cannot be full. We give an algorithm for finding all left invariant metrics geodesically equivalent to a given left invariant metric on a Lie group. Using that algorithm we prove that no two left invariant metrics of any signature on sphere $S^3$ are geodesically equivalent. However, we present examples of Lie groups that admit geodesically equivalent, nonproportional, left-invariant metrics. (English)
Keyword: invariant metric
Keyword: geodesically equivalent metric
Keyword: affinely equivalent metric
MSC: 22E15
MSC: 53C22
MSC: 53C30
idZBL: 07144866
idMR: MR4039611
DOI: 10.21136/CMJ.2018.0557-17
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Date available: 2019-11-28T08:46:59Z
Last updated: 2022-01-03
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/147905
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