Actions of noncompact semisimple groups on Lorentz manifolds
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The above title is the same, but with "semisimple" instead of "simple," as that of a notice by N. Kowalsky. There, she announced many theorems on the subject of actions of simple Lie groups preserving a Lorentz structure. Unfortunately, she published proofs for essentially only half of the announced results before her premature death. Here, using a different, geometric approach, we generalize her results to the semisimple case, and give proofs of all her announced results.
25 pp, to appear in Geometric and Functional Analysis sharpened thm 1.9 to give global description of actions in all cases; added section 8 on structure of orbits of Riemannian type and how Riemannian and Lorentzian orbits meet around degenerate set; many minor corrections and improvements thanks to referee's comments
25 pp, to appear in Geometric and Functional Analysis sharpened thm 1.9 to give global description of actions in all cases; added section 8 on structure of orbits of Riemannian type and how Riemannian and Lorentzian orbits meet around degenerate set; many minor corrections and improvements thanks to referee's comments