Homogeneous geodesics in homogeneous affine manifolds
Zdenek Dusek Palacký University
It is well known that, in any homogeneous Riemannian manifold, there is at least one homogeneous geodesic through each point. For the pseudo-Riemannian case, even if we assume reductivity, this existence problem was open for a long time.
We use an affine approach to this problem. In [1], it was proved by a direct method that in dimension 2, any homogeneous affine manifold admits a homogeneous geodesic. In [2], it was proved by a differential-topological method that any homogeneous affine manifold admits a homogeneous geodesic through each point. As a corollary, we get the same result for homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, either reductive or not.
[1] Dusek, Z., Kowalski, O., Vlasek, Z.: Homogeneous geodesics in homogeneous affine manifolds, Results in Math. (2009).
[2] Dusek, Z.: The existence of homogeneous geodesics in homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian and affine manifolds, J. Geom. Phys. (2010).