Jacobi vector fields and geodesic tubes in certain Kähler manifolds
A Stiefel manifold is the set of orthonormal -frames in , and it is diffeomorphic to the homogeneous space . We study -invariant Einstein metrics on this space. We determine when the standard metric on is Einstein, and we give an explicit solution to the Einstein equation for the space .
A geodesic of a homogeneous Riemannian manifold is called homogeneous if it is an orbit of an one-parameter subgroup of . In the case when is a naturally reductive space, that is the -invariant metric is defined by some non degenerate biinvariant symmetric bilinear form , all geodesics of are homogeneous. We consider the case when is a flag manifold, i.eȧn adjoint orbit of a compact semisimple Lie group , and we give a simple necessary condition that admits a non-naturally reductive...
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