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Federico A. Rossi

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arXiv2026

Harmful structures and Killing spinors on unimodular Lie groups

A pseudo-Riemannian Einstein manifold with a Killing spinor and Killing constant $λ$ induces on its nondegenerate hypersurfaces a pair of spinors $ϕ,ψ$ and a symmetric tensor $A$, corresponding to the second fundamental form. Viewed as an intrinsic object, $(ϕ,ψ,A,λ)$ is known as a harmful structure; this notion generalizes nearly hypo and nearly half-flat structures to arbitrary dimension and signature. We show that when $A$ is a multiple of the identity the harmful structure is determined by a Killing spinor. We characterize left-invariant harmful structures on Lie groups in terms of Clifford multiplication by some special elements induced by the structure constants and metric. This enables us to classify left-invariant harmful structures on unimodular metric Lie groups of definite or Lorentzian signature and dimension $\leq 4$, under the assumption that the symmetric tensor $A$ is diagonalizable over $\mathbb{R}$. These pseudo-Riemannian Lie groups are principal orbits of cohomogeneity one Einstein metrics of Riemannian, Lorentzian or anti-Lorentzian signature with a Killing spinor.

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arXiv2026

Einstein metrics and Killing spinors on pseudo-Riemannian solvmanifolds

Riemannian Einstein solvmanifolds can be described in terms of nilsolitons, namely nilpotent Lie groups endowed with a left-invariant Ricci soliton metric. This characterization does not extend to indefinite metrics; nonetheless, nilsolitons can be defined and used to construct Einstein solvmanifolds of a higher dimension in any signature. An Einstein solvmanifold obtained by this construction turns out to satisfy the pseudo-Iwasawa condition, meaning that its Lie algebra splits as the orthogonal sum of a nilpotent ideal and an abelian subalgebra, the latter acting by symmetric derivations. In this paper we construct a family of pseudo-Iwasawa solvmanifolds admitting a Killing spinor in any dimension and signature and prove that all pseudo-Iwasawa solvmanifolds admitting a Killing spinor, invariant or not, belong to this family. If in addition the metric is Einstein, we show that the only possibility is the hyperbolic half-space. As a byproduct, we prove that the only homogeneous Riemannian manifold admitting a Killing spinor with imaginary Killing constant is hyperbolic space.

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arXiv2024

A construction of Einstein solvmanifolds not based on nilsolitons

We construct indefinite Einstein solvmanifolds that are standard, but not of pseudo-Iwasawa type. Thus, the underlying Lie algebras take the form $\mathfrak{g}\rtimes_D\mathbb{R}$, where $\mathfrak{g}$ is a nilpotent Lie algebra and $D$ is a nonsymmetric derivation. Considering nonsymmetric derivations has the consequence that $\mathfrak{g}$ is not a nilsoliton, but satisfies a more general condition. Our construction is based on the notion of nondiagonal triple on a nice diagram. We present an algorithm to classify nondiagonal triples and the associated Einstein metrics. With the use of a computer, we obtain all solutions up to dimension $5$, and all solutions in dimension $\leq9$ that satisfy an additional technical restriction. By comparing curvatures, we show that the Einstein solvmanifolds of dimension $\leq 5$ that we obtain by our construction are not isometric to a standard extension of a nilsoliton.

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arXiv2024

Ad-invariant metrics on nonnice nilpotent Lie algebras

We proved in previous work that all real nilpotent Lie algebras of dimension up to $10$ carrying an ad-invariant metric are nice. In this paper we show by constructing explicit examples that nonnice irreducible nilpotent Lie algebras admitting an ad-invariant metric exist for every dimension greater than $10$ and every nilpotency step greater than $2$. In the way of doing so, we introduce a method to construct Lie algebras with ad-invariant metrics called the single extension, as a parallel to the well-known double extension procedure.

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arXiv2023

Pseudo-Kähler and pseudo-Sasaki structures on Einstein solvmanifolds

The aim of this paper is to construct left-invariant Einstein pseudo-Riemannian Sasaki metrics on solvable Lie groups. We consider the class of $\mathfrak z$-standard Sasaki solvable Lie algebras of dimension $2n+3$, which are in one-to-one correspondence with pseudo-Kähler nilpotent Lie algebras of dimension $2n$ endowed with a compatible derivation, in a suitable sense. We characterize the pseudo-Kähler structures and derivations giving rise to Sasaki-Einstein metrics. We classify $\mathfrak z$-standard Sasaki solvable Lie algebras of dimension $\leq 7$ and those whose pseudo-Kähler reduction is an abelian Lie algebra. The Einstein metrics we obtain are standard, but not of pseudo-Iwasawa type.

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arXiv2023

Pseudo-Riemannian Sasaki solvmanifolds

We study a class of left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian Sasaki metrics on solvable Lie groups, which can be characterized by the property that the zero level set of the moment map relative to the action of some one-parameter subgroup $\{\exp tX\}$ is a normal nilpotent subgroup commuting with $\{\exp tX\}$, and $X$ is not lightlike. We characterize this geometry in terms of the Sasaki reduction and its pseudo-Kähler quotient under the action generated by the Reeb vector field. We classify pseudo-Riemannian Sasaki solvmanifolds of this type in dimension $5$ and those of dimension $7$ whose Kähler reduction in the above sense is abelian.

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arXiv2022

Indefinite nilsolitons and Einstein solvmanifolds

A nilsoliton is a nilpotent Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ with a metric such that $\operatorname{Ric}=λ\operatorname{Id}+D$, with $D$ a derivation. For indefinite metrics, this determines four different geometries, according to whether $λ$ and $D$ are zero or not. We illustrate with examples the greater flexibility of the indefinite case compared to the Riemannian setting. We determine the algebraic properties that $D$ must satisfy when it is nonzero. For each of the four geometries, we show that under suitable assumptions it is possible to extend the nilsoliton metric to an Einstein solvmanifold of the form $\mathfrak{g}\rtimes \mathbb{R}^k$. Conversely, we introduce a large class of indefinite Einstein solvmanifolds of the form $\mathfrak{g}\rtimes \mathbb{R}^k$ that determine a nilsoliton metric on $\mathfrak{g}$ by restriction. We show with examples that, unlike in the Riemannian case, one cannot establish a correspondence between the full classes of Einstein solvmanifolds and nilsolitons.

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arXiv2021

New Special Einstein Pseudo-Riemannian Metrics on Solvable Lie Algebras

We exhibit a concrete procedure to construct Einstein pseudo-Kähler and para-Kähler metrics on solvable Lie algebras. We apply this method to classify all the rank-one pseudo-Iwasawa extensions of type-(Nil4) nilsoliton in low dimension. We prove that such metrics exists on the rank-one pseudo-Iwasawa extension of the generalized Heisenberg Lie algebra. Further ideas and suggestions to produce more special Einstein pseudo-Riemannian metrics are exposed.

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arXiv2021

Nice pseudo-Riemannian nilsolitons

We study nice nilpotent Lie algebras admitting a diagonal nilsoliton metric. We classify nice Riemannian nilsolitons up to dimension $9$. For general signature, we show that determining whether a nilpotent nice Lie algebra admits a nilsoliton metric reduces to a linear problem together with a system of as many polynomial equations as the corank of the root matrix. We classify nice nilsolitons of any signature: in dimension $\leq 7$; in dimension $8$ for corank $\leq 1$; in dimension $9$ for corank zero.

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arXiv2021

Uniqueness of ad-invariant metrics

We consider Lie algebras admitting an ad-invariant metric, and we study the problem of uniqueness of the ad-invariant metric up to automorphisms. This is a common feature in low dimensions, as one can observe in the known classification of nilpotent Lie algebras of dimension $\leq 7$ admitting an ad-invariant metric. We prove that uniqueness of the metric on a complex Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ is equivalent to uniqueness of ad-invariant metrics on the cotangent Lie algebra $T^*\mathfrak{g}$; a slightly more complicated equivalence holds over the reals. This motivates us to study the broader class of Lie algebras such that the ad-invariant metric on $T^*\mathfrak{g}$ is unique. We prove that uniqueness of the metric forces the Lie algebra to be solvable, but the converse does not hold, as we show by constructing solvable Lie algebras with a one-parameter family of inequivalent ad-invariant metrics. We prove sufficient conditions for uniqueness expressed in terms of both the Nikolayevsky derivation and a metric counterpart introduced in this paper. Moreover, we prove that uniqueness always holds for irreducible Lie algebras which are either solvable of dimension $\leq 6$ or real nilpotent of dimension $\leq 10$.

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arXiv2020

Indefinite Einstein metrics on nice Lie groups

We introduce a systematic method to produce left-invariant, non-Ricci-flat Einstein metrics of indefinite signature on nice nilpotent Lie groups. On a nice nilpotent Lie group, we give a simple algebraic characterization of non-Ricci-flat left-invariant Einstein metrics in both the class of metrics for which the nice basis is orthogonal and a more general class associated to order two permutations of the nice basis. We obtain classifications in dimension 8 and, under the assumption that the root matrix is surjective, dimension 9; moreover, we prove that Einstein nilpotent Lie groups of nonzero scalar curvature exist in every dimension $\geq 8$.

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arXiv2020

Diagram involutions and homogeneous Ricci-flat metrics

We introduce a combinatorial method to construct indefinite Ricci-flat metrics on nice nilpotent Lie groups. We prove that every nilpotent Lie group of dimension $\leq6$, every nice nilpotent Lie group of dimension $\leq7$ and every two-step nilpotent Lie group attached to a graph admits such a metric. We construct infinite families of Ricci-flat nilmanifolds associated to parabolic nilradicals in the simple Lie groups ${\rm SL}(n)$, ${\rm SO}(p,q)$, ${\rm Sp}(n,\mathbb R)$. Most of these metrics are shown not to be flat.

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arXiv2019

Ricci-flat and Einstein pseudoriemannian nilmanifolds

This is partly an expository paper, where the authors' work on pseudoriemannian Einstein metrics on nilpotent Lie groups is reviewed. A new criterion is given for the existence of a diagonal Einstein metric on a nice nilpotent Lie group. Classifications of special classes of Ricci-flat metrics on nilpotent Lie groups of dimension $\leq8$ are obtained. Some related open questions are presented.

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arXiv2019

Construction of nice nilpotent Lie groups

We illustrate an algorithm to classify nice nilpotent Lie algebras of dimension $n$ up to a suitable notion of equivalence; applying the algorithm, we obtain complete listings for $n\leq9$. On every nilpotent Lie algebra of dimension $\leq 7$, we determine the number of inequivalent nice bases, which can be $0$, $1$, or $2$. We show that any nilpotent Lie algebra of dimension $n$ has at most countably many inequivalent nice bases.

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arXiv2018

Einstein nilpotent Lie groups

We study the Ricci tensor of left-invariant pseudoriemannian metrics on Lie groups. For an appropriate class of Lie groups that contains nilpotent Lie groups, we introduce a variety with a natural $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{R})$ action, whose orbits parametrize Lie groups with a left-invariant metric; we show that the Ricci operator can be identified with the moment map relative to a natural symplectic structure. From this description we deduce that the Ricci operator is the derivative of the scalar curvature $s$ under gauge transformations of the metric, and show that Lie algebra derivations with nonzero trace obstruct the existence of Einstein metrics with $s\neq0$. Using the notion of nice Lie algebra, we give the first example of a left-invariant Einstein metric with $s\neq0$ on a nilpotent Lie group. We show that nilpotent Lie groups of dimension $\leq 6$ do not admit such a metric, and a similar result holds in dimension $7$ with the extra assumption that the Lie algebra is nice.

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arXiv2017

The Ricci tensor of almost parahermitian manifolds

We study the pseudoriemannian geometry of almost parahermitian manifolds, obtaining a formula for the Ricci tensor of the Levi-Civita connection. The formula uses the intrinsic torsion of an underlying SL(n,R)-structure; we express it in terms of exterior derivatives of some appropriately defined differential forms. As an application, we construct Einstein and Ricci-flat examples on Lie groups. We disprove the parakähler version of the Goldberg conjecture, and obtain the first compact examples of a non-flat, Ricci-flat nearly parakähler structure. We study the paracomplex analogue of the first Chern class in complex geometry, which obstructs the existence of Ricci-flat parakähler metrics.

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arXiv2012

Cohomology of D-complex manifolds

In order to look for a well-behaved counterpart to Dolbeault cohomology in D-complex geometry, we study the de Rham cohomology of an almost D-complex manifold and its subgroups made up of the classes admitting invariant, respectively anti-invariant, representatives with respect to the almost D-complex structure, miming the theory introduced by T.-J. Li and W. Zhang in [T.-J. Li, W. Zhang, Comparing tamed and compatible symplectic cones and cohomological properties of almost complex manifolds, Comm. Anal. Geom. 17 (2009), no. 4, 651-684] for almost complex manifolds. In particular, we prove that, on a 4-dimensional D-complex nilmanifold, such subgroups provide a decomposition at the level of the real second de Rham cohomology group. Moreover, we study deformations of D-complex structures, showing in particular that admitting D-Kaehler structures is not a stable property under small deformations.

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