Stability analysis for the pseudo-Riemannian geodesic flows of step-two nilpotent Lie groups

Abstract

The present paper deals with the stability analysis for the geodesic flow of a step-two nilpotent Lie group equipped with a left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metric. The Lie-Poisson equation can be described in terms of the so-called $j$-mapping, a linear operator associated to the step-two nilpotent Lie algebras equipped with the induced scalar product. The stability of equilibrium points for the Hamilton equation is determined in terms of their Williamson types.