Transitive nilpotent Lie algebras of vector fields and their Tanaka prolongations

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Main Authors: Grabowska, Katarzyna, Grabowski, Janusz, Ravanpak, Zohreh
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author Grabowska, Katarzyna
Grabowski, Janusz
Ravanpak, Zohreh
author_facet Grabowska, Katarzyna
Grabowski, Janusz
Ravanpak, Zohreh
contents Transitive local Lie algebras of vector fields can be easily constructed from dilations of $\mathbb{R}^n$ associating with coordinates positive weights (give me a sequence of $n$ positive integers and I will give you a transitive nilpotent Lie algebra of vector fields on $\mathbb{R}^n$). It is interesting that all transitive nilpotent local Lie algebra of vector fields can be obtained as subalgebras of nilpotent algebras of this kind. Starting with a graded nilpotent Lie algebra one constructs graded parts of its Tanaka prolongations inductively as `derivations of degree 0, 1, etc. Of course, vector fields of weight $k$ with respect to the dilation define automatically derivations of weight $k$, so the Tanaka prolongation is in this case never finite. Are they all such derivations given by vector fields or there are additional `strange'ones? We answer this question. Except for special cases, derivations of degree 0 are given by vector fields of degree 0 and the Tanaka prolongation recovers the whole algebra of polynomial vectors defined by the dilation. However, in some particular cases of dilations we can find `strange' derivations which we describe in detail
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spellingShingle Transitive nilpotent Lie algebras of vector fields and their Tanaka prolongations
Grabowska, Katarzyna
Grabowski, Janusz
Ravanpak, Zohreh
Differential Geometry
Mathematical Physics
(primary) 17B30, 17B66 (secondary) 57R25, 57S20
Transitive local Lie algebras of vector fields can be easily constructed from dilations of $\mathbb{R}^n$ associating with coordinates positive weights (give me a sequence of $n$ positive integers and I will give you a transitive nilpotent Lie algebra of vector fields on $\mathbb{R}^n$). It is interesting that all transitive nilpotent local Lie algebra of vector fields can be obtained as subalgebras of nilpotent algebras of this kind. Starting with a graded nilpotent Lie algebra one constructs graded parts of its Tanaka prolongations inductively as `derivations of degree 0, 1, etc. Of course, vector fields of weight $k$ with respect to the dilation define automatically derivations of weight $k$, so the Tanaka prolongation is in this case never finite. Are they all such derivations given by vector fields or there are additional `strange'ones? We answer this question. Except for special cases, derivations of degree 0 are given by vector fields of degree 0 and the Tanaka prolongation recovers the whole algebra of polynomial vectors defined by the dilation. However, in some particular cases of dilations we can find `strange' derivations which we describe in detail
title Transitive nilpotent Lie algebras of vector fields and their Tanaka prolongations
topic Differential Geometry
Mathematical Physics
(primary) 17B30, 17B66 (secondary) 57R25, 57S20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07176