Plane-wave conjecture for reductive Lorentzian homogeneous spaces
Plane-wave conjecture for reductive Lorentzian homogeneous spaces
Let be a reductive Lorentzian homogeneous space of dimension , with isotropy group acting indecomposably but non-irreducibly. A plane wave is a Lorentzian manifold admitting a parallel null vector field, whose curvature tensor satisfies for all orthogonal to that vector field, and such that for all orthogonal to it. Plane-wave conjecture. The homogeneous space 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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