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By Franco Tricerri; Lieven Vanhecke

The principal subject of this booklet is the theory of Ambrose and Singer, which provides for a hooked up, whole and easily attached Riemannian manifold an important and adequate for it to be homogeneous. this can be a neighborhood which needs to be chuffed in any respect issues, and during this approach it's a generalization of E. Cartan's process for symmetric areas. the most target of the authors is to exploit this theorem and illustration conception to offer a class of homogeneous Riemannian buildings on a manifold. There are 8 periods, and a few of those are mentioned intimately. utilizing the confident evidence of Ambrose and Singer many examples are mentioned with precise recognition to the common correspondence among the homogeneous constitution and the teams performing transitively and successfully as isometrics at the manifold.

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Let J(V) be an invariant subspace of1b(V). a homogeneous structure T on (M,g) is of type J when T p E We say that J(T M) for all p p EM. Note that every class J of the eight classes of homogeneous structures is invariant under isomorphisms of homogeneous structures. 5. Let T be a homogeneous structure. (i) Tis of type 1b 1 if and only if IITII 2 = 2 Then < T,T > A = 2 2 n- 1 llc 12 (T)II ; (ii) Tis of type1b 2 if and only if llc 12 (T)II 2 = 0 and IITII 2 (iii) Tis of type1b3 if and only if IITII 2 + < T,T > (iv) Tis of type1b 1 E91b 2 if and only if IITII 2 - 2 (v) T is of type 1b1 E91b3 if and only if II Til 2 + 2 < T,T > 0; = < T,T > = 0; < T,T > (vi) T is of type 1b2 E91b3 if and only if II c 12 (T) 11 2 A 0.

U Since Vu is also c"' we find that Gu n Vu, its orthogonal complement and hence Qu are also Coo distributions. This lemma shows that u on O(M). Qu is an infinitesimal connection Moreover, an important fact will be that this connection is invariant under the action of G. 17. Proof. 51) for a E G and u EO(M). So we have for a E g since a is left invariant. But (Ju)::la(ala> is tangent at au Ju(a) to the curve a expta u= (ad(a)expta)au (exptAd(a)a)au. Hence (I. 8 implies that La is an isometry of (~(M),gV) and so the required result follows at once.

2) E V} , where v:: denotes the dual vector space of V. 3) i,j ,k where (e 1 , ••• ,en) is an arbitrary orthonormal basis of V. 4) z for x,y,z E V and a E O(V). Next we determine the decomposition of 'b(V) into irreducible invariant components under this action of the orthogonal group. :.. v Txyz-- 0 ' c 12 (T) x,y,z {T E'b(V) IT where x,y,z E V. 6) (3. 7) 0} ' (3. 8) 0} denotes the cyclic sum with respect to x,y x,y,z and z. 1. Let dim V ~ 3. Then 'b(V) is the orthogonal direct sum of the subspaces 'bi(V), i = 1,2,3.

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