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Homogeneity for a class of Riemannian quotient manifolds
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.difgeo.2017.10.006Abstract
We study Riemannian coverings [Formula presented] where M~ is a normal homogeneous space G/K1 fibered over another normal homogeneous space M=G/K and K is locally isomorphic to a nontrivial product K1×K2. The most familiar such fibrations [Formula presented] are the natural fibrations of Stiefel manifolds SO(n1+n2)/SO(n1) over Grassmann manifolds SO(n1+n2)/[SO(n1)×SO(n2)] and the twistor space bundles over quaternionic symmetric spaces (= quaternion-Kaehler symmetric spaces = Wolf spaces). The most familiar of these coverings [Formula presented] are the universal Riemannian coverings of spherical space forms. When M=G/K is reasonably well understood, in particular when G/K is a Riemannian symmetric space or when K is a connected subgroup of maximal rank in G, we show that the Homogeneity Conjecture holds for M~. In other words we show that [Formula presented] is homogeneous if and only if every γ∈Γ is an isometry of constant displacement. In order to find all the isometries of constant displacement on M~ we work out the full isometry group of M~ extending Élie Cartan's determination of the full group of isometries of a Riemannian symmetric space. We also discuss some pseudo-Riemannian extensions of our results.
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