{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1104571","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1104571","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q1104571","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-06T17:31:32Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1104571","name":"Isometry groups of Lorentz manifolds","headline":"Isometry groups of Lorentz manifolds","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4056489","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1104571","datePublished":"1988-00-00","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q953133"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q163162"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.1007/BF01393747","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01393747"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01393747"],"comment":"Let (V,g) be an n-dimensional, compact, real analytic, simply connected Lorentz manifold with metric g of type (n-1,1). It can be shown that if A is a connected Abelian subgroup of the group of all isometries Is(V,g), then there exists an open dense subset U of V such that for all \\(u\\in U\\) the connected component \\(A_ u\\) of the identity of the isotropy subgroup \\(A_ v\\subset A\\) fixes the connected component of u in U. Is(V,g) has finitely many connected components.    From these facts one sees that the subgroup \\(A_ u\\subset A\\) is discrete for all \\(u\\in U\\), if U is an open dense A-invariant subset in V. On the other hand, the orbits A(v) of A for all \\(v\\in V\\) equal those of the maximal torus \\(T\\subset A\\). Therefore, dim A(v)\\(=\\dim T(v)=\\dim A-\\dim Av\\). Since dim T(v)\\(=\\dim T-\\dim Tv\\), it follows that dim A\\(=\\dim T\\), that is, \\(A=T\\). Thus, we have the following theorem: A compact, real analytic, simply connected Lorentz manifold has a compact isometry group.    (Remark: The isometry group of a compact pseudo-Riemannian manifold (V,G) is not always compact.)","citation":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q5658761"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4108454"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q772579"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q2542430"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q5735629"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1074873"}]},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-06T17:31:32Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}