On rigidity of Grauert tubes over homogeneous Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

Given a real-analytic Riemannian manifold $X$ there is a canonical complex structure, which is compatible with the canonical complex structure on $T^*X$ and makes the leaves of the Riemannian foliation on $TX$ into holomorphic curves, on its tangent bundle. A {\it Grauert tube} over $X$ of radius $r$, denoted as $T^rX$, is the collection of tangent vectors of $X$ of length less than $r$ equipped with this canonical complex structure. In this article, we prove the following two rigidity property of Grauert tubes. First, for any real-analytic Riemannian manifold such that $r_{max}>0$, we show that the identity component of the automorphism group of $T^rX$ is isomorphic to the identity component of the isometry group of $X$ provided that $r<r_{max}$. Secondly, let $X$ be a homogeneous Riemannian manifold and let the radius $r<r_{max}$, then the automorphism group of $T^rX$ is isomorphic to the isometry group of $X$ and there is a unique Grauert tube representation for such a complex manifold $T^rX$.