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    Lorentzian Flat Lie Groups Admitting a Timelike Left-Invariant Killing Vector Field

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    We call a connected Lie group endowed with a left-invariant Lorentzian flat metric Lorentzian flat Lie group. In this Note, we determine all Lorentzian flat Lie groups admitting a timelike left-invariant Killing vector field. We show that these Lie groups are 2-solvable and unimodular and hence geodesically complete. Moreover, we show that a Lorentzian flat Lie group (G,μ)(\mathrm{G},\mu) admits a timelike left-invariant Killing vector field if and only if G\mathrm{G} admits a left-invariant Riemannian metric which has the same Levi-Civita connection of μ\mu. Finally, we give an useful characterization of left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian flat metrics on Lie groups G\mathrm{G} satisfying the property: for any couple of left invariant vector fields XX and YY their Lie bracket [X,Y][X,Y] is a linear combination of XX and YY
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