1. Introduction
For a long time, the “curvilinearity” of our space was scientifically substantiated. The geometry of our space does not obey the laws of Euclidean geometry, but is determined by the general concept of the Riemannian metric. So, we can determine the local properties of the surrounding space, but the global structure of the universe as a whole is very difficult to be imagined. The prevailing opinion expressed by A. Poincare is that, by analogy with the surface of the earth, the universe is a closed simply connected space. Poincare put forward a hypothesis according to which a closed, simply connected three-dimensional space is topologically equivalent to a three-dimensional sphere, which leads to some analogy between the structure of the universe and the structure of the earth’s surface. Recently, the purely mathematical hypothesis of Poincare was finally proved by G. Perelman.
It is possible to try an analytical approach to the study of global properties of Riemann space. This approach is related to the fact that the Riemann tensor is given by analytic functions that have the property of unique analytic extension. Consider a Riemannian analytic manifold and a ball
of small radius centered at some point
. By an analytic extension of a locally defined metric, we mean any Riemannian analytic manifold
of the same dimension and an analytic isometry
. Let us try to find the most natural analytical extension of this metric. As a natural requirement to analytic extension, the result of extension must be nonextendable. The notion of nonextendable Riemannian analiytic manifold was introduced in the classical monographs of Helgason [
1] and S. Kobayashi, Sh. Nomizu [
2]. However, nonextendable manifolds can be very unnatural. For example, a simply connected covering of the right half-plane without the points
,
. Analytic extension of Riemannian analytic manifolds without Killing vector fields and some spaces of affine connection was studied in the thesis of G.H. Smith [
3]. Analytic extension of Riemannian analytic manifolds with Killing vector fields and closeness of Lie subgroups is studied in this article.
Generally, the essential requirement for researching in global geometry of Riemannian spaces is the completeness of the manifold under consideration. For a complete simply connected Riemannian analytic manifold
, any isometry
between two connected open subsets
,
analytically extends to the isometry
[
1].
However, usually the ball of a Riemannian analytic manifold cannot be isometrically embedded in a complete Riemannian analytic manifold, i.e., generally speaking, a locally defined Riemannian metric does not analytically extend to the metric of a complete Riemannian manifold. We have a problem of a generalization of the notion of completeness. A natural generalization of this kind is the nonextendability of a Riemannian analytic manifold. However, nonextendable manifolds can be quite unnatural.
We ask ourselves whether it is possible to construct a Riemannian analytic manifold containing as an open subset and admitting analytic extension of local isometries to isometries of the whole manifold using the given local properties of the Riemannian analytic metric, i.e., the metric defined on a small ball . That is, any isometry between two connected open subsets , analytically extends to the isometry . The following fact is an insurmountable obstacle to such extension. Let be the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields on a Riemannian analytic manifold and its stationary subalgebra for a fixed point , . Let be the simply connected subgroup generated by the algebra , and be its subgroup generated by the subalgebra . Let act on a simply connected manifold ; then the orbit of a fixed point is a submanifold isometric to the group , but the factor group is a manifold if and only if the subgroup is closed in , and this is not always true.
The aim of this paper is to define a pseudocomplete manifold, which is the “most complete” analytic extension of an arbitrary locally given Riemannian analytic metric. An analytic extension of a locally given Riemannian metric is studied. We consider cases of a completely inhomogeneous metric and metric for which the Lie algebra of all vector Killing fields does not have a center. In these cases, we define a quasicomplete manifold with the property of uniqueness and extendability of all local isometries , where , are connected open subsets of the manifold , up to the isometry . An oriented Riemannian analytic manifold whose vector field algebra has a zero center is called quasicomplete if it is nonextendable and does not admit nontrivial local isometries into themselves, preserving orientation and all Killing vector fields.
We give a definition of a pseudocomplete manifold that leads to the “most complete” extension of a locally given metric and applies to an arbitrary locally given metric. A Riemannian analytic simply connected oriented manifold is called pseudocomplete if it has the following properties: is nonextendable. There is no locally isometric orientation preserving covering map , where is a simply connected Riemannian analytic manifold, and is an open subset of not equal to . Among the pseudocomplete manifolds, we distinguish the “most symmetric” regular pseudocomplete manifolds. Next, we study pseudocomplete manifolds of small dimensions and give their classification.
The second goal is to study locally homogeneous manifolds, not only Riemannian, but also pseudo-Riemannian. Below we give the conditions under which
is closed in
. The structure of nonclosed subgroups is well known. However, the corresponding studies use the structure of groups
and
and do not take into account the local properties of the Riemannian metric. A description of the properties of an open subgroup
is contained in the classical work of A. I. Maltsev [
4]. If the Lie subgroup
of a simply connected Lie group
is not closed in
, then the group
contains a torus
such that the intersection
is an everywhere dense winding of this torus. However, this fact is difficult to establish on the basis of the local properties of a given Riemannian analytic metric, i.e., on the basis of the properties of the Lie algebra
and its stationary subalgebra
. Is it possible to find the properties of the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields for which the subgroup
defined by the stationary subalgebra
is closed in the simply connected group
generated by the algebra
. We should mention the result of Mostow, according to which
is closed in
if
is semisimple. In addition, Mostow proved that
is closed in
if
, [
5].
Let us try to find the necessary and sufficient properties of the Lie algebra
of all Killing vector fields on the Riemannian analytic manifold
and its stationary subalgebra
, under which
is closed in
. Purely algebraic means are not enough here. To study the closeness problem for a stationary subgroup
in a simply connected group
, we use the study of the analytic extension of a locally given Riemannian analytic metric. Manifolds that are analytic extensions of an arbitrary locally given Riemannian analytic metric have the same Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields. Therefore, the question of whether the group
is closed in
is equivalent to the question of the analytic extendability of a locally given Riemannian analytic metric on a locally homogeneous space to the metric of a complete manifold. The concept of an analytic extension of a Riemannian analytic metric was given in the classical monographs of Helgason [
1] and S. Kobayashi, Sh. Nomizu [
2], but it was not developed. It was developed in [
3].
The case when
has a zero center was studied in the papers [
6,
7,
8] not only for Riemannian manifolds, but also for pseudo-Riemannian spaces and spaces with affine connection. It is proved that in this case the subgroup
defined by the stationary subalgebra
is closed in the simply connected group
generated by the algebra
. In addition to the algebraic approach, an analytical approach is being developed to study the analytic extension of Riemannian analytic manifolds. One of the main topic of this paper is the study of locally homogeneous manifolds whose Lie algebra
of all Killing vector fields has a nontrivial center
. The properties of the algebra
, its stationary subalgebra
and the center
, which ensures the closedness of the subgroup
defined by the stationary subalgebra
, in the simply connected group
generated by the algebra
are given. Let
be the center of the algebra
,
its radical, and
its commutant. If
, then
is closed in
. If for any semisimple subalgebra
such that
holds an equality
, then
is closed in
.
It is of fundamental importance to study the case of a completely inhomogeneous Riemannian metric, i.e., a metric that does not admit any one parameter local group of local isometries (Killing vector fields). In this case, it is possible to define a so-called quasicomplete manifold that has the property of unextendability and uniqueness for each locally given completely inhomogeneous metric, [
9]. The definition of a quasicomplete manifold can be generalized to the case when the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields for a given locally defined Riemannian analytic metric has no center, [
8]. Such manifold
has the property of the maximum possible symmetry, i.e., any isometry
V between connected open subsets of the variety
can be analytically extended to an isometry
. However, a quasicomplete manifold has not only the disadvantage that it is not defined for an arbitrary locally given metric, but in a certain sense it is not “the most complete.” We present the concept of a pseudocomplete manifold for an arbitrary locally given Riemannian metric, investigate its properties and connection with a quasicomplete manifold, and also describe pseudocomplete manifolds in the case of small dimensions.
2. Analytic Extension of Riemannian Manifolds and Generalization of the Notion of Completeness
The class of all locally isometric Riemannian analytic manifolds will also be called the class of manifolds originating from a given germ of a Riemannian analytic manifold, and a specific manifold from this class will be called the analytic extension of this germ. A natural requirement for the analytic extension of a germ is the nonextendability of the resulting manifold. Let us move on to precise definitions and formulations.
Definition 1. An analytic extension of a Riemannian analytic manifold is a Riemannian analytic manifold such that there exists an analytic embedding of into as a proper open subset. A manifold that does not admit analytic extension is called nonextendable.
Definition 2. A local isometry between two Riemannian analytic manifolds and is the isometry between open subsets , . The manifolds between which there is a local isometry will be called locally isometric.
Any vector field can be analytically extended along any curve on the manifold and, thus, the Lie algebra defines the Lie algebra of Killing vector fields on any simply connected manifold locally isometric to . This fact is also true for manifolds with affine connection.
Lemma 1. Let be an analytic manifold with affine connection, an infinitesimal affine transformation defined in a domain and let , , be a continuous curve in such that γ (0)∈U. Then the vector field is analytically extendable along . If the curves and , 0 , , , are homotopic, then the extension of the vector field to the point along these curves coincide.
Proof. Suppose that
is analytically extendable to a neighborhood of any point
for
. Let us prove that it also extends to a neighborhood of the point
. Let
be a normal neighborhood of a point
, which is a normal neighborhood of each of its points [
1]. Consider
such that
.
The vector field generates a local one-parameter isometry group in a neighborhood of each point , . Let us prove that for all sufficiently small values of , the local isometries analytically extend to a neighborhood of the point . Then the tangent vector field of this local group of isometries will be the analytic extension of the vector field to a neighborhood of the point .
Let us consider a connected open set containing points and , whose closure also belongs to , , . Let us consider a small neighborhood of the point and connect the point with a segment of the geodesic , , with an arbitrary point . Let and , . From the point , , we draw a geodesic , such that . For sufficiently small values of , . We put . The mapping thus obtained is the analytic extension of the isometry . ☐
Let us study the case of a completely inhomogeneous Riemannian metric, i.e., a manifold with such metric that has not any Killing fields. In this case, it is possible to define a quasicomplete variety that has the property of nonextendability and uniqueness for each locally given completely inhomogeneous metric [
8].
Definition 3. An analytic Riemannian manifold is called a completely inhomogeneous manifold if there are no Killing vector fields on it. The Riemannian metric of a completely inhomogeneous manifold is called a completely inhomogeneous metric.
By Lemma 1, all manifolds that are locally isometric to a completely inhomogeneous manifold are completely inhomogeneous.
Definition 4. A completely inhomogeneous oriented Riemannian analytic manifold is said to be quasicomplete if it is nonextendable and does not admit nontrivial orientation-preserving local isometries into itself.
Let us present the main properties of completely inhomogeneous quasicomplete manifolds, [
9]. For an arbitrary completely inhomogeneous manifold
, consider the set
of all fixed points of all possible orientation-preserving local isometries of the manifold
into itself.
Theorem 1. For an arbitrary completely inhomogeneous Riemannian analytic manifold , the set is an analytic subset of codimension at least 2. Consequently, is a connected manifold.
Theorem 2. For any completely inhomogeneous Riemannian analytic manifold there exists a quasicomplete manifold locally isometric to it and a locally isometric covering map . Thus, a quasicomplete manifold is unique for every completely inhomogeneous locally given Riemannian analytic metric.
The proof of Theorems 1 and 2 can be found in [
9].
The definition of a quasicomplete manifold can be generalized to the case when the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields for a given locally defined Riemannian analytic metric has no center, [
8]. Such are also locally homogeneous manifolds, in particular all locally symmetric spaces.
Definition 5. An analytic Riemannian manifold is called to be locally homogeneous if at any point the Killing vector fields form a basis of the tangent space .
An equivalent definition of a locally homogeneous manifold is that for any points there exists a local isometry of the manifold such that .
Definition 6. An oriented Riemannian analytic manifold whose algebra Lie of all Killing vector fields has no center is called quasicomplete if it is nonextendable and does not admit nontrivial preserving the orientation and all Killing vector fields of local isometries into itself.
Let us investigate oriented Riemannian analytic manifolds whose Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields has no center in order to prove that each such manifold is locally isometric to a quasicomplete manifold, and a locally homogeneous quasicomplete manifold is a complete homogeneous manifold.
We denote by the pseudogroup of all local isometries of a Riemannian analytic manifold preserving all Killing vector fields and orientation, .
Lemma 2. Let be an analytic Riemannian manifold satisfying the property of unique analiytic extension of Killing vector fields and whose Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields has no center. Then the set, consisting of fixed points of all possible isometries , is an analytic subset of codimension at least 2.
Proof. Let us prove that for any open set
with compact closure there are only finitely many local isometries from
to
belonging to the pseudogroup
. Assume the opposite and consider an infinite sequence of local isometries
from
to
,
. In the proof of Lemma 3 in [
8], was constructed a Killing vector field
on some open set
which satisfies the following condition. For some subsequence of local isometries
such that
, where
is the local one-parameter isometry group generated by the vector field
. Therefore, for any Killing vector field
on
. Therefore
, i.e.
. It contradicts to the absence of center in
. ☐
This contradiction proves the existence of only finite number of local isometries from
to
belonging to the pseudogroup
. As it was shown in [
8], it easily follows from it that the set S is an analytic subset of codimension not less than 2.
By Lemma 2, the manifold is connected.
Lemma 3. Let be an analytic Riemannian manifold satisfying the property of unique extension of Killing vector fields and whose Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields has no center. Then there is a locally isometric covering map fromto an analytic Riemannian manifold , which also satisfies the property of unique extension of Killing vector fields, and whose pseudogroupconsists only of the identity transformation.
Proof. Let us factorize the variety by the pseudogroup . It follows from the proof of Lemma 2 that for every point there is a neighborhood of the point that does not admit nonidentical orientation-preserving local isometries from to belonging to the pseudogroup . This proves that the quotient map projecting the manifold into the set is a covering map. Hence, for each point , there is a neighborhood of it and an open set , such that the mapping establishes a homeomorphism between the sets and . Let us define a Riemannian scalar product. If necessary, going to subset of the set , we will assume that is a coordinate neighborhood of the point . Then we declare the set as a coordinate neighborhood of the point . Consider two such neighborhoods , . Let the sets corresponds to the sets . Put , . Then there is an isometry . Let and be coordinate mappings on and , respectively. Then and will be coordinate maps to and .
Let us consider an arbitrary point and arbitrary vectors . Let us also consider some point and vectors such that , . Let us define the Riemannian scalar product equal to the Riemannian scalar product on . If we take another point and vectors such that , , then there exists a local isometry such that that , , . Therefore, . This proves the correctness of the definition of the Riemannian metric on .
The constructed Riemannian manifold does not admit nonidentical orientation-preserving local isometries that induce the identity transformation on the algebra of Killing vector fields . The projection is a locally isometric covering map. It remains to prove the property of unique extension of Killing vector fields to . Consider a Killing vector field defined on some open set and open sets and such that the covering map establishes an isometry between the sets and . Then the vector field extends uniquely from the set to the whole manifold M and defines a vector field on . Let points be such that π (x) = π (y) and . Since by the definition of , then . Therefore, . This proves that the mapping uniquely projects the vector field , given on , onto the vector field , given on the manifold . The resulting vector field will be the analytic extension of the vector field to the entire manifold . ☐
Theorem 3. An arbitrary Riemannian analytic manifold whose Lie algebra of Killing vector fields has no center is locally isometric to a quasicomplete manifold.
Proof. Let us consider an arbitrary Riemannian analytic manifold , the Lie algebra of Killing vector fields of which has no center and construct for it the manifold similarly to the construction of the manifold in the proof of Lemma 3. does not admit local isometries in itself that preserve the orientation and vector Killing fields. Then a quasicomplete manifold will be some maximal analytic extension of the manifold . We will assume that all the manifolds that we will consider in the proof of the theorem have the property of unique analytic extension of Killing vector fields, that is, the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields is the same for all manifolds and is equal to . If satisfies this property, then the manifold also satisfies it.
Let us consider the set consisting of analytic extensions of the manifold that satisfy the property of unique extension of Killing vector fields and do not admit local isometries that are identical on the algebra of all Killing vector fields. We mark a point on a manifold and a basis of tangent space at this marked point, and also mark the images of this point and this basis in the manifolds . Let us introduce the following order relation on this set. if there is an isometric embedding which transfers the marked point to the marked and marked basis of the tangent space to the marked one. As a result, becomes a partially ordered set. Consider an arbitrary linearly ordered subset of the set . Let us construct the direct limit of the family of manifolds and mappings . We obtain a manifold with the following properties. For any manifold there is an isometric embedding and , if . . Let us prove that . An arbitrary vector field on the manifold with the help of the imbeddings and is transferred to the manifold , moreover, to and the Killing vector field uniquely extends from the submanifold to any submanifold , and therefore, to the whole manifold . Thus, a Killing vector field defined on an arbitrarily small open set can be uniquely extended to a Killing vector field on .
Let us consider now a local isometry . Let the point belong to the domain of the isometry . Then the points and lie in some submanifold . Therefore, and therefore is the identity transformation. Hence, the pseudogroup consists only of the identity transformation. For an arbitrary linearly ordered subset we have constructed the supremum. By Zorn’s lemma, the set has a maximal element. We assert that the manifold , which is a maximal element, is the required quasicomplete manifold. It is required to prove that is not extendable.
Suppose the opposite and denote by a nontrivial extension of the manifold . Let as above denote the set of fixed points of all possible local isometries from the pseudogroup . Let us factorize the manifold the manifold in exactly the same way as in the proof of Lemma 3, the way manifold was factorized. As a result, we obtain a manifold L that satisfies the property of unique extension of Killing vector fields and does not admit local isometries that preserve the orientation and all Killing vector fields. Let denote the embedding . Let us prove that . If then some normal ball centered at belongs to . If, in addition then there is a local isometry satisfying the condition . This isometry defines the isometry of the ball into itself, given in normal coordinates by a linear map—the differential of isometry , but the existence of such an isometry contradicts the triviality of the pseudogroup . Thus, gives an embedding . The chain mapping where is the covering mapping constructed in the proof of Lemma 3 and is also an embedding. Since, if then there is a local isometry such that hence . Since is a maximal element of the set , is an isometry, and covers .
We have a covering map and an embedding where is open subset in . Let there be a sequence of points converging to . Then the sequence also converges to some point . Since then . This proves that is closed in . So is disconnected or , but the disconnectedness of contradicts Lemma 2. Therefore . Let us prove that . Suppose the opposite and consider a normal ball centered at some point . There is nontrivial isometry of the ball into itself. This isometry does not leave fixed points from and, therefore, is a nonidentical local isometry from the pseudogroup , but since this contradicts the triviality of the pseudogroup . This proves that , and is nonextendable. ☐
Theorem 4. Let be a local isometry from a quasicomplete manifold to a quasicomplete manifold . Then extends to an isometry .
Proof. Let us consider an arbitrary point and a smooth curve , , , . Let us prove that the isometry defined in the neighborhood of the point can be extended along the curve . Suppose there is no such extension. Let number be the minimum among the numbers such that the isometry does not extend to a neighborhood of the point along the curve . Let us prove, nevertheless, that, contrary to the assumption, there exists an extension of to some neighborhood of the point along the curve .
By the assumption made about the isometry is defined in some neighborhood of the point . So the curve , , is defined on . Let and be such that the neighborhood is a normal neighborhood of each of its points. Since such that under the condition the following inequalities hold: . Hence there exists . Let us consider the set . There is an isometry of some neighborhood of the set to the neighborhood of the set . Let us prove that can be extended to isometry . Let us prove first that can be extended along any curve , on , , is an arbitrary point on . If we assume that this is not the case, then there is a minimum number among the numbers with the property: does not extend along the curve to some neighborhood of the point . Let and be such that the set is a normal neighborhood of the point and . Therefore, . Using the linearity of the map in normal coordinates, one can extend the isometry defined on some neighborhood of the point to the isometry defined on the whole set which is a neighborhood of the point . This refutes the assumption that cannot be extended along the curve .
Let us prove now that the extension of the isometry to all possible curves to gives a map . Suppose the opposite. Then there is a closed curve , , , on such that the curve on will be nonclosed, . But since all possible analytic extensions of the isometry induce the same maps on the algebra of Killing vector fields, the isometry of the form that maps to belongs to the pseudogroup and this contradicts the fact that is a quasicomplete manifold. Similarly, it is proved that the extension of the local isometry from to defines a map on the set . So, we have an isometric embedding . Let us prove that it is a surjective mapping. If we assume the opposite, then gluing the manifolds and using the map , we obtain a nontrivial extension of the manifold , which contradicts its nonextendability. Therefore, we have an isometry . The inverse isometry gives an extension of the isometry to the neighborhood of the point along the curve , contrary to the initial assumption about .
Thus, we have proved that the local isometry from to extends to any point along an arbitrary curve on . Just as above, we proved that the extension of the isometry along all possible curves to yields a one-to-one mapping defined on the whole , it can be proved that the extension of along all possible curves to M gives an isometric embedding . ☐
Corollary 1. An arbitrary Riemannian analytic manifold whose Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields has no center is locally isometric to a unique quasicomplete manifold. That is, a locally given Riemannian analytic metric whose Lie algebra of Killing vector fields has no center can be uniquely extended to a quasicomplete manifold.
Proof. Let a quasicomplete manifold be locally isometric to the manifold and let be another quasicomplete manifold locally isometric to the manifold . Then there is a local isometry from to and a local isometry ψ from to . The superposition of the isometry and ψ is a locally isometry from to . By Theorem 4, the local isometry extends to the isometry .☐
Corollary 2. Let be the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields in a Riemannian analytic manifold diffeomorphic to a ball, and let be its stationary subalgebra. Let be a simply connected group generated by the algebra and its subgroup generated by the subalgebra . If has no center, then is closed in .
Proof. Since is diffeomorphic to a ball, its Killing vector fields can be uniquely analytically extended on it. By Theorem 3, the manifold is locally isomorphic to a quasicomplete manifold having the same Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields and the same stationary subalgebra . For an arbitrary vector field , for all values of the parameter less than a certain number , the elements of the one-parameter transformation group are local isometries of . By Theorem 4, they extend to isometries of the entire manifold . But then the isometries are defined. Thus, the group acts on , and is its stationary subgroup. This means that the orbit of the group on is covered by the homogeneous manifold . Consequently, is closed in . ☐
Note that quasicomplete manifolds are the most compressed, that is, universally attracting objects in the category of all locally isometric manifolds. For any analytic Riemannian manifold , the algebra of Killing vector fields of which has no center, there exists a locally isometric map from ’to a quasicomplete manifold defined on the whole , where Is the set of fixed points of all orientation-preserving and Killing vector fields of local isometries of the manifold .
A quasicomplete manifold is unique in the class of all analytic extensions of a given germ and has remarkable properties [
9]. First of all, it has the property of maximum symmetry, that is, any local isometry
from a quasicomplete manifold
into itself can be analytically extended to an isometry
. However, the concept of a quasicomplete manifold has not only the disadvantage that it is not defined for all locally given Riemannian analytic metrics, but it is also not, in a certain sense, “the most complete.” Namely, there is a germ of a Riemannian analytic manifold that can be extended to a complete manifold, the canonical extension of which to a quasicomplete manifold is not a complete manifold.
Example 1. Let us consider an ellipsoid in three-dimensional space, given by the equation . In order to obtain a quasicomplete manifold in the class of all Riemannian analytic manifolds locally isometric to an ellipsoid, it is necessary to remove 6 points of intersection with the coordinate axes from the ellipsoid and factor, with a resulting manifold of the group of rotations by 180 degrees around all coordinate axes.
Nonetheless, it turns out to be possible to give a generalization of the notion of completeness, which leads to the “most complete” manifold for an arbitrary germ of an analytic Riemannian manifold.
Definition 7. A Riemannian analytic simply connected manifold is called pseudocomplete if it has the following properties.
is nonextendable.
There is no locally isometric covering map , where is a simply connected Riemannian analytic manifold and is an open subset of that is not equal to .
Let us investigate the analytic extension to a pseudocomplete manifold for various classes of germs of analytic Riemannian manifolds. First of all, one should establish the fact that an analytic extension to a pseudocomplete manifold exists for any germ of an analytic Riemannian manifold. At the same time, in the general case, this extension is not unique, however, different analytic extensions of the same germ do not differ very significantly.
Theorem 5. Any locally given Riemannian analytic manifold admits an analytic extension to a pseudocomplete manifold. If there is a complete manifold in the class of locally isometric Riemannian analytic manifolds, then this manifold is the only pseudocomplete manifold in this class.
Proof. On the set of all simply connected analytic extensions of a given germ of an analytic Riemannian manifold, we introduce the following order relation. A manifold is greater than or equal to a manifold , , if there exists a locally isometric map . Thus, the set of simply connected Riemannian analytic manifolds that are locally isometric to each other becomes a partially ordered set. By Zorn’s lemma, this set contains a maximal element. By definition, this element will be a pseudo-complete manifold.
Let us consider a complete Riemannian analytic manifold . If we assume that is not pseudocomplete, then there exists a locally isometric map such that some point , . Let . , be a geodesic connecting point with point . Then the preimage of this geodesic for does not extend to a geodesic for all t on the manifold M, which contradicts the completeness of this manifold.
A pseudo-complete manifold is not unique in the class of all locally isometric Riemannian analytic manifolds. ☐
Example 2. Let us consider a germ of a two-dimensional analytic Riemannian manifold represented by a sphere with metric, where is an analytic function on the sphere satisfying the condition for any linear fractional transformation .
Such a metric has a singularity at the point . A sphere with this metric is a pseudocomplete manifold. Eliminate the singularity at the point using the transformation , . As a result, we obtain a sphere that is double covering the original one and has the metric . This metric has a singularity at the point which is natural, since the sphere w branches over the sphere at the point corresponding to the point . For different . we obtain different pseudocomplete manifolds with coordinate .
Example 2 shows that there are many not very natural pseudocomplete manifolds. In order to avoid such unnatural irregularities we will define regular pseudocomplete manifold.
Definition 8. A Riemannian analytic simply connected manifold is called a regular pseudocomplete manifold if there is no covering locally isometric mapinto another pseudocomplete manifold locally isometric to the manifold .
Theorem 6. A local isometry from a regular pseudocomplete manifold to a regular pseudocomplete manifold extends analytically along continuous curves to any point except for an analytic subset of codimension at least 2.
Proof. We present the proof for the case when the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields has no center. Consider the subsets
and
consisting of all fixed points of local isometries preserving the orientation of Killing vector fields. The sets
and
are analytic subsets of the manifolds
and
of codimension at least 2, [
8,
9]. Let
be a quasicomplete manifold locally isometric to the varieties
and
. Then there exist covering locally isometric mappings
. and
[
8,
9]. Moreover, it follows from the definition of a regular pseudocomplete manifold that
and
. Let us consider an arbitrary curve
such that domain of the initially given local isometry
between the manifolds
and
contains the point
, its image
. and the connected component
of the inverse image
. containing the point
. Then the initially given local isometry
analytically continues to the isometry of some neighborhood of the curve
,
, to some neighborhood of the curve
,
, belonging to
. ☐
Let be a regular pseudocomplete Riemannian analytic manifold whose Lie algebra of all vector fields has no center, be the set of fixed points of all local isometries of the manifold preserving orientation and Killing vector fields, be a quasicomplete manifold locally isometric to , be simply connected covering of the manifold . Then there are analytic locally isometric coverings .
For an arbitrary oriented Riemannian analytic manifold , we denote by the pseudogroup consisting of all local isometries of the manifold that preserve the orientation and all Killing vector fields. Let us consider the factor manifold of the manifold by the pseudogroup . We define the union of the manifolds and by gluing them over the set . By the intersection we mean the identification of maximal subsets to which the initially given local isometry between the simply connected coverings and of the manifolds and is extended.
Let us consider the distribution on a manifold , consisting of vectors perpendicular to the center of the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields.
Theorem 7. Let be pseudocomplete analytic Riemannian manifold, the distribution of tangent vectors perpendicular to the center of the algebra of all Killing vector fields, be the set of fixed points of local isometries preserving the orientation and all Killing vector fields. Ifis involutive, then the simply connected covering of the manifold is isometric to the direct product of the Euclidean space and the simply connected coveringof the totally geodesic submanifold tangent to .
.
Proof. Since the distributions and are involutive, some neighborhood of the marked point has the form where is an open subset of the integral submanifold of the distribution and is an open subset of the integral submanifold of the distribution . Let be coordinates on , and be coordinates on . Then in coordinates components do not depend on , and since the submanifolds V and W are perpendicular, the components are equal to 0. Therefore, the metric on is . Since the pseudocomplete manifold is nonextendable, it contains complete integral submanifold of the distribution that is direct products of the Euclidean space and the torus . Therefore is a fiber bundle over with fibers . Since the distribution is involutive, this fiber bundle contains the section , and therefore it is trivial . Since is not extendable then . Therefore the simply connected covering of the manifold is isometric to the direct product of simply connected spaces . ☐
Corollary. 3
Let us consider a Riemannian analytic manifoldof dimensionwhose Lie algebrais commutative, that is, coincides with its centerand. Then there are at most two pseudocomplete manifolds locally isometric to.
Proof. Since , and is involutive. By Theorem 5, for a pseudocomplete manifold locally isometric to the manifold , the decomposition holds. A completely geodesic submanifold is isometric to a line or a circle or a ray or an interval . Let us consider the factor set . If or then . If , then or . If then or or or .
If or then the corresponding germ of an analytic Riemannian manifold has a unique extension to a pseudocomplete manifold, and this manifold is isometric to a Euclidean space. The extension of a germ to a pseudocomplete manifold will be unique in the case
that is .
Let and . Then the points of the subset are mapped under the factorization to the point . A point is a singular point of some field , and any isometry from into itself such that has the form , . Let us consider a subalgebra consisting of Killing vector fields that vanish at the point , . Then generates the isometry group of some ball extending analytically to the isometry group of the manifold and isomorphic to the quotient group of the group by some lattice acting on the manifold . Then is a complete manifold isometric to the space . A similar construction is applicable to the case when and or that is, when is obtained from by adding one point or . In this case, the pseudocomplete manifold is also unique and isometric to the manifold however this manifold is no longer complete.
Finally, let us consider the case , . It means that is obtained from by adding two points and . Consider a pseudocomplete manifold and points of the set projecting to a point . Then, as in the consideration of the previous cases, consider the variety obtained by joining the set to the quotient variety of the manifold by some lattice so that where . Similarly, consider the pseudocomplete manifold and points of the set projecting to the point . The manifold is obtained by joining the set to the quotient manifold of the manifold by some lattice so that where . If the lattices and do not coincide, then the manifolds and are two different pseudocomplete manifolds. If the lattices and coincide, then the manifolds and are isometric and define the complete manifold .☐
Let us turn to the description of pseudocomplete manifolds of small dimensions.
Let us consider a germ of a two-dimensional Riemannian real analytic manifold. The Lie algebra g of Killing vector fields of a two-dimensional manifold has dimension at most 3. If then the germ is a germ of a manifold of constant curvature and extends to a complete manifold that is a sphere, a plane, or a hyperbolic plane. If then the germ is the germ of the left-invariant Riemannian metric on the two-dimensional Lie group, which is the extension of this germ to the complete manifold. The case is described in the corollary to Theorem 5 just proved.
Let us consider completely inhomogeneous two-dimensional analytic Riemannian manifolds. The factor manifold , constructed earlier as the union of all factor varieties locally isometric to each other, by the pseudogroup of all local isometries that preserve all Killing vector fields and orientation, is nothing more than a quasicomplete variety. Let us consider the set obtained by adding to the manifold the images of points under the quotient mappings defined on all possible analytic extensions of the germ. Then the subset consists of isolated points, and on one can introduce the structure of an analytic manifold. Let us consider a point . Then there is a sufficiently small ball centered at the point such that the quotient mapping is a factorization of the ball by a finite group of rotations centered at , . Let z be a complex coordinate on such that the point has coordinate 0. Then the mapping has the form and the metric on the set is where is an analytic Riemannian metric on the ball .
We denote by the simply connected covering of the set . Then the preimage of the set is the discrete set of points . An analytic Riemannian metric is uniquely defined on so that the covering is locally isometric. Then the metric in the neighborhoods of the points has the form , if the complex coordinate is chosen so that point has coordinate 0. A simply connected maifold is diffeomorphic to a complex plane, circle, or sphere.
Let us consider the case when is identified with the complex plane . Then there exists a function holomorphic on with branch points of order . This function is called the Weierstrass function. , where the numbers are such that the series converges. Let us consider the Riemann surface of the function . The surface covers the complex plane so that the covering map has a branching of order over the points and is not r branching at other points. We define a Riemannian metric on where , . This metric has no singularities at the points such that . It is easy to prove that for any simply connected manifold locally isometric to , any local isometry from to can be analytically extended to a locally isometric map . So is the only analytic extension of this germ to a pseudocomplete manifold.
In case then is a circle a unique analytic extension of this germ to a pseudocomplete manifold can be constructed similarly to the case of the complex plane. This manifold is also a Riemann surface of a holomorphic function on with branching of order over the points . where is the point on the boundary of the circle closest to and the numbers are such that .
Let us consider the case when is a sphere. Here the set consists of a finite number of points at each of which the metric has a singularity of the form . The function on the sphere has branching of order at the points , i = 1; 2;…; l, and branching of order at the point . As above, consider the Riemann surface of the function . The covering map is a covering over and has branching of order over the points , , and branching of some order into point . Then the metric on induced by the metric on and the covering map has no singularity at the points , but the case where has a singularity at the point . The resulting manifold is a regular pseudocomplete manifold. Instead of the point , we can take any other point and construct another regular pseudocomplete manifold in the way described above. Thus, we obtain all analytic extensions to the pseudocomplete manifold of the given germ.
Let us pass to the description of three-dimensional pseudo-complete manifolds. As before, we will denote by
the center of the Lie algebra
of all Killing vector fields on the manifolds under consideration. If
then the germ of a Riemannian manifold is homogeneous and, according to a result of Mostov, [
4], it can be extended to a homogeneous manifold. If
then, according to the proved corollary to Theorem 5, there are at most two analytic extensions of a given germ to a regular pseudocomplete variety. The case when the algebra
has no center,
, was analyzed in the proof of Theorem 4.
Let us consider the case when . First, consider the case when is diffeomorphic to the plane. Let us consider the manifold . Let be a small ball equipped with an initially given Riemannian metric on . We extend the metric defined on to the manifold . Let be coordinates on such that are coordinates on and is a coordinate on . The components of the metric tensor are independent of . The functions extend analytically along any curve on and define a metric on . Then , hence where is the group of covering . Then, for a regular pseudocomplete manifold the manifold where is a discrete subgroup of the group .
Let us now consider the case when the quotient variety is diffeomorphic to a sphere. Let us split into a union of two open disks . We construct, as above, the Riemannian manifolds and which are analytic extensions of the originally given germ, whose submanifolds are integral curves of the vector field . Local isometries from to extend along any curve on . If such an extension is unique, we get a complete manifold which is an extension of a given germ. Suppose now that there exists a closed curve , , on , the extension of the isometry along which is ambiguous, . Let are coordinates on such that form coordinates on and is a coordinate on , and are coordinates on such that form coordinates on and is a coordinate on . Since and are coordinates on the Lie algebra the isometry in coordinates have the form , , where the functions are the transition functions from the map on to the map on on sphere and therefore are unambiguous. The function continues ambiguously along the closed curve , , to . Let . Let’s consider the circle . Then the extension of the function along the curve will be unique if we assume that takes values not on the line , but on the circle . Then, there will also be a unique extension of the function along the curves , . But, since any curve on is homotopic to the curve the extension of the function along all possible curves is unique on . In this case, the function is the transition function of the bundle into circles over the sphere and we have compact lens spaces as analytic extensions of a given germ.
3. Locally Homogeneous Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds, the Algebra of Killing Vector Fields Which Has a Nontrivial Center
Let us investigate the case when the algebra has a nonzero center and indicates the properties of the algebras , , and that ensure the closeness of the subgroup in .
Let us define a local group of local isometries. Let us consider an arbitrary Riemannian analytic manifold , a Lie algebra consisting of all Killing vector fields on it, and a Lie group with Lie algebra . By a local group (chunk of a group) we mean a small neighborhood of the identity of the group . It consists of local isometries of the manifold . Consider a normal ball of radius centered at . The neighborhood of the identity in the group consists of elements that define isometries from the ball of radius centered at a marked point to the ball of radius centered at . Note that . The Lie algebra as a rule does not generate the isometry group of the manifold but generates the pseudogroup of local isometries. The orbit of the local group of local isometries of the manifold is a locally homogeneous manifold . Note also that the subgroup generated by the stationary subalgebra forms the isometry group of the ball centered at a marked point of .
Let us study some properties of the local group of local isometries from the point of view of abstract transformation groups. Let us consider a local group as a subgroup of the group of local diffeomorphisms of a manifold with a marked point , . We call an element right multiplication if there exists an element such that for all such that , . Since then . Therefore . Thus, right multiplication by an element is well defined if is such that for any local isometry the equality holds. In other words, belongs to the normalizer of the group in . Let denote the local group consisting of elements right multiplication by which in the group generate local isometries of the manifold and by its Lie algebra. Then . Note that the multiplications themselves on the right, that is, the elements as well as the elements of the center of the local group belong to . Let denote the orbit of the marked point of the local group on . The adjoint action of the elements , defines local isometries on .
Let us find a subgroup consisting of “multiplications on the left.” Consider a mapping from a group defined as the group of transformations of a set into itself, defined by the formula where is the identity local isometry. Then, since we will assume that . Strictly speaking is the coset but all elements , define the same local isometry of the manifold . On the set we define the multiplication . The multiplication thus defined turns into a subgroup . Left multiplications are supplemented by right multiplications that is, any element , can be represented as , Since the elements , and , , using multiplications on the right in the group G define the same local isometry on the group of “multiplications on the right” is identified with the factor group and the Lie algebra of this group is identified with the factor algebra . Therefore , .
Let us consider that the orbit of the marked point p of the local isometry group . The group of “left multiplications” (more precisely, its neighborhood of unity) acts on ; moreover , and , , define the same local isometry on by means of left multiplications in the group then the group of “left multiplications” in the group is also identified with the quotient group , and the Lie algebra of this group is identified with the quotient algebra .
Thus, the inner automorphisms of the group are isometries of and generate the adjoint representation of the group in the algebra and form the adjoint group Int of the algebra . Since acts on transitively, then can be identified with the tangent space and Int is a closed subgroup of the group of linear transformations of the space . But, since Int preserves a nondegenerate positive definite Riemannian form on then Int is a closed subgroup of the compact group of orthogonal transformations and therefore is compact.
The group Int (
) is isomorphic to the group
where
is the center of the group
. Therefore, the group
is compact and the Lie algebra
is a compact algebra [
1]. Therefore
is decomposed into the direct sum of its center
and the commutant [
,
. Since all “right multiplications” commute with all “left multiplications”, then
coincides with the center of the entire algebra of Killing vector fields
. Thus there is a direct sum decomposition
.
generates “pure right multiplications” that do not coincide with “left multiplications.
Theorem 8. Letbe the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields on a locally homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian analytic manifold, be its stationary subalgebra,be the center of. Letbe a simply connected subgroup generated by the algebraandits subgroup generated by the subalgebra. If thenis closed in.
Proof. Suppose the opposite. Let us consider the closure
of the group
in
and the subalgebra
of the subgroup
. The subalgebra
is a normal subalgebra of the algebra
[
3]. We will assume, passing if necessary to the conjugate group
which for a marked point
. Let us consider the one-parameter subgroup
,
defined by the vector field
,
. As proved in [
3], there exists a torus
in a simple compact subgroup
such that
is an everywhere dense winding of the torus
. Therefore, we can assume that
. Then the Killing vector field of tangent vectors to the orbits of the local one-parameter group
belongs to the algebra t of the group
and, therefore
where
is the Lie algebra of the group
. Let us consider a neighborhood of unity
in the group
and the ball
of radius
centered at the marked point
such that all elements
of the group
define local isometries from the ball
to the ball
of radius
centered at
. Note that
. Since the elements
belong to the closure
of
in
for each small
the inner automorphism
of the group
is the limit of the sequence of inner automorphisms
,
. For small
and large
these automorphisms define local isometries of the ball
into the ball
.
Inner automorphisms , generating the same local isometries as multiplication by define isometries of the ball . Since the elements belong to the normalizer of the group the inner automorphisms define maps on the ball that are limits of isometries, they also define the isometry of the ball into the ball . Then, since the local isometry of the ball into the ball is defined for all sufficiently small , the local isometry is also defined, and thus the local one-parameter group of isometries generated by multiplications on the right by the elements is defined.
All right multiplications commute with left multiplications that are with the elements of the group . However they may not commute with each other. Let us prove that local isometry commutes with all right multiplications. To this end, we prove that the action of the element in the group of inner automorphisms of the group , defines the identity map on the orbit of the marked point of the group . Let us consider a sequence converging to . Since is a normal subgroup in then where then . Hence, the inner automorphisms induce the identity map on . Passing to the limit, we see that the inner automorphism induces the identity map on .
The vector field of tangent vectors to the orbits of the local one-parameter group of multiplications on the right by is a Killing vector field and belongs to the center of the algebra of all Killing vector fields on , . It follows from the decomposition that . Therefore but . This proves the theorem by contradiction.
Since the vector field generating the local one-parameter group belongs to a compact subalgebra of the algebra then belongs to the commutator subalgebra of the algebra . ☐
Theorem 9. Letbe the Lie algebra of all Killing vector fields on a locally homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian analytic manifold, is its stationary subalgebra,is the center of, and is its radical. Letbe a simply connected subgroup generated by the algebraandits subgroup generated by the subalgebra. Then, if for any semisimple algebrasuch thatthere is the equalitythenis closed in.
Proof. Suppose the opposite and consider the closure of the group in . As in the proof of Theorem 5, let us consider the one-parameter subgroup generated by right multiplication by elements of the one-parameter group of local isometries in . Let be the Killing vector field of tangent vectors to orbits of the local one-parameter group of local isometries and is the Killing vector field of the local one-parameter group of local isometries .
Let be a semisimple subalgebra of the algebra containing the vector field , . Let us prove that and . In a simply connected Lie group , consider the radical (the subgroup corresponding to the subalgebra ) and the semisimple subgroup corresponding to the subalgebra . Then is a normal subgroup in r is a normal subalgebra in , , and the Levi-Maltsev decomposition holds.
The group
contains an open neighborhood of the identity (chunk of a group) acting as a local group of local isometries in a neighborhood of the marked point
. Since
belongs to the center of the group
, then
and since the subgroup
is a normal divisor of the group
, [
3], then
. Consequently, the local isometries
leave the point
fixed and, therefore, belong to the stationary subgroup
. But, since
, and
then
. Since
this means that the statement
holds for the chosen maximal semisimple algebra
. This proves the theorem by contradiction.☐