The curvature of left-invariant magnetic systems
Abstract
We compute the magnetic curvatures (in the sense of Assenza) of left-invariant magnetic systems on Lie groups and explore relations between curvature properties and algebraic properties, extending to the magnetic setting a number of results from Milnor's classic 1976 paper on the geometry of left-invariant metrics. We also discuss the existence of non-trivial bi-invariant magnetic systems and exhibit the resulting curvature formulas in some concrete examples, including the Heisenberg group.
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