Invariant conformal Killing forms on almost abelian Lie groups

Abstract

We describe completely conformal Killing or conformal Killing-Yano (CKY) $p$-forms on almost abelian metric Lie algebras. In particular we prove that if a $n$-dimensional almost abelian metric Lie algebra admits a non-parallel CKY $p$-form, then $p=1$ or $p=n-1$. In other words, any CKY $p$-form on a metric almost abelian Lie algebra is parallel for $2\leq p\leq n-2$. Moreover, we characterize almost abelian Lie algebras admitting non-parallel CKY $p$-forms, and we classify all Lie algebras with this property up to dimension $5$, distinguishing also those cases where the associated simply connected Lie group admits lattices.