Plane-wave conjecture for reductive Lorentzian homogeneous spaces

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Let G/HG/H be a reductive Lorentzian homogeneous space of dimension m4m\ge 4, with isotropy group HH acting indecomposably but non-irreducibly. A plane wave is a Lorentzian manifold admitting a parallel null vector field, whose curvature tensor satisfies R(X,Y)=0R(X,Y)=0 for all X,YX,Y orthogonal to that vector field, and such that XR=0\nabla_XR=0 for all XX orthogonal to it. Plane-wave conjecture. The homogeneous space G/HG/H is a plane wave. To our knowledge, all known examples satisfy this conclusion; the conjecture is motivated by the classification of homogeneous plane waves and by the analogous classification of Lorentzian symmetric spaces with indecomposable holonomy.

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Steven Greenwood and Thomas Leistner, “Lorentzian homogeneous structures with indecomposable holonomy”, arXiv:2404.17470 (2024).

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