Conjecture on compact locally homogeneous simple pseudo-Riemannian Einstein manifolds

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Let GG be a simple non-compact Lie group, and let G/HG/H be a homogeneous space. A standard triple (G,H,L)(G,H,L) consists of reductive subgroups H,L⊂GH,L\subset G with G=HLG=HL and H∩LH\cap L compact; a standard Clifford–Klein form is obtained from such a triple and a cocompact lattice in LL. Locally homogeneous compact pseudo-Riemannian Einstein manifolds considered here are quotients Γ\G/H\Gamma\backslash G/H.

The conjecture. The only compact locally homogeneous simple pseudo-Riemannian Einstein manifolds are of the form Γ\G/H\Gamma\backslash G/H, determined by either some standard triple (G,H,L)(G,H,L) and a cocompact lattice Γ\Gamma in LL or a deformation of such Γ\Gamma, or by (G,H^,L^)(G,\hat H,\hat L), where H^\hat H and L^\hat L differ from HH and LL by a compact factor.

The paper proves that every standard triple of a simple non-compact Lie group determines a compact Clifford–Klein form with at least one Einstein metric. The proposed classification is presented as a hypothesis guided by Kobayashi's conjecture, and its general validity remains open.

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Maciej Bochenski and Aleksy Tralle, “On locally homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian compact einstein manifolds”, arXiv:2006.04195 (2020).

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