TY - JOUR
T1 - Graphs and metric 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras
AU - Decoste, Rachelle C.
AU - Demeyer, Lisa
AU - Mainkar, Meera G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: Meera Mainkar was supported by the Central Michigan University ORSP Early Career Investigator (ECI) grant #C61940.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH Berlin/Boston 2018.
PY - 2018/7/26
Y1 - 2018/7/26
N2 - Dani and Mainkar introduced a method for constructing a 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra nG from a simple directed graph G in 2005. There is a natural inner product on nG arising from the construction. We study geometric properties of the associated simply connected 2-step nilpotent Lie group N with Lie algebra ng. We classify singularity properties of the Lie algebra ng in terms of the graph G. A comprehensive description is given of graphs G which give rise to Heisenberg-like Lie algebras. Conditions are given on the graph G and on a lattice Γ ⊆ N for which the quotient Γ\N, a compact nilmanifold, has a dense set of smoothly closed geodesics. This paper provides the first investigation connecting graph theory, 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras, and the density of closed geodesics property.
AB - Dani and Mainkar introduced a method for constructing a 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra nG from a simple directed graph G in 2005. There is a natural inner product on nG arising from the construction. We study geometric properties of the associated simply connected 2-step nilpotent Lie group N with Lie algebra ng. We classify singularity properties of the Lie algebra ng in terms of the graph G. A comprehensive description is given of graphs G which give rise to Heisenberg-like Lie algebras. Conditions are given on the graph G and on a lattice Γ ⊆ N for which the quotient Γ\N, a compact nilmanifold, has a dense set of smoothly closed geodesics. This paper provides the first investigation connecting graph theory, 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras, and the density of closed geodesics property.
KW - Heisenberg-like Lie algebra
KW - Nilpotent Lie algebras
KW - closed geodesics
KW - star graphs
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U2 - 10.1515/advgeom-2017-0052
DO - 10.1515/advgeom-2017-0052
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045854090
SN - 1615-715X
VL - 18
SP - 265
EP - 284
JO - Advances in Geometry
JF - Advances in Geometry
IS - 3
ER -