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Lorentzian Flat Lie Groups Admitting a Timelike Left-Invariant Killing Vector Field
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
admits a timelike left-invariant Killing vector field if and only if
admits a left-invariant Riemannian metric which has the same
Levi-Civita connection of . Finally, we give an useful characterization of
left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian flat metrics on Lie groups
satisfying the property: for any couple of left invariant vector fields and
their Lie bracket is a linear combination of and