Four-dimensional compact Clifford-Klein forms of pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces with signature $(2, 2)$

Abstract

We give a classification of irreducible four-dimensional symmetric spaces $G/H$ which admit compact Clifford-Klein forms, where $G$ is the transvection group of $G/H$. For this, we develop a method that applies to particular 1-connected solvable symmetric spaces. We also examine a `solvable analogue' of Kobayashi's conjecture for reductive groups and find an evidence that the reductive assumption in Kobayashi's conjecture is crucial.