Riemannian Geometry of Lie Groups with One and Two-Dimensional Commutator Subgroups

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate left invariant Riemannian metrics on Lie groups with one and two-dimensional commutator subgroups. We explicitly provide the Levi-Civita connection, sectional curvature, and Ricci curvature, and we give computable necessary and sufficient conditions for these Riemannian manifolds to be Ricci solitons. Furthermore, we characterize all Ricci solitons on Lie groups with one-dimensional commutator subgroups. In the final section, we examine the results concerning all indecomposable Lie groups with two-dimensional commutator subgroups of dimension greater than or equal to five.