We show a geometric rigidity of isometric actions of non compact (semisimple) Lie groups on Lorentz manifolds. Namely, we show that the manifold has a warped product structure of a Lorentz manifold with constant curvature by a Riemannian manifold.
@article{hal-00003480,
author = {Arouche, Abdelouahab and Deffaf, Mohamed and Zeghib, Abdelghani},
title = {On Lorentz dynamics : From group actions to warped products via homogeneous spaces},
journal = {HAL},
volume = {2004},
number = {0},
year = {2004},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/hal-00003480}
}
Arouche, Abdelouahab; Deffaf, Mohamed; Zeghib, Abdelghani. On Lorentz dynamics : From group actions to warped products via homogeneous spaces. HAL, Tome 2004 (2004) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/hal-00003480/