Transitivity conjecture for Nil-Killing Lie algebras on CSI Lorentzian spaces

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A Lorentzian space is CSI if all of its polynomial curvature invariants are constant. Let MM be an nn-dimensional Lorentzian space, and let N\mathcal{N} denote a set of Nil-Killing vector fields on MM. The set N\mathcal{N} is transitive when

dim⁡(N∣p)=n\dim(\mathcal{N}|_p)=n

for every point p∈Mp\in M.

Transitivity conjecture. If MM is an nn-dimensional Lorentzian space with all curvature invariants constant, then there exists a transitive set N\mathcal{N}.

This conjecture proposes that CSI Lorentzian spaces admit enough Nil-Killing vector fields to act transitively. The source gives this as an expectation based on known CSI examples, but provides no resolution in the stated passage.

References

Primary source

Sigbjørn Hervik, “On a new class of infinitesimal group actions on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds”, arXiv:1805.09402 (2018).

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