Isometry groups of Lorentzian manifolds of finite volume and the local geometry of compact homogeneous Lorentz spaces

Diploma Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Mathematics - Geometry, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Mathematik), language: English, abstract: Based on the work of Adams and Stuck as well as on the work of Zeghib, we classify the Lie groups which can act isometrically and locally effectively on Lorentzian manifolds of finite volume. In the case that the corresponding Li...