This research classifies non-singular geodesic orbit nilmanifolds, revealing new examples and structures.
A Riemannian manifold is called a geodesic orbit manifold, GO for short, if any geodesic is an orbit of a one-parameter group of isometries. By a result of C.Gordon, a non-flat GO nilmanifold is necessarily a two-step nilpotent Lie group with a left-invariant metric. We give a complete classification of non-singular GO nilmanifolds. Besides previously known examples, there are new families with 3-dimensional center, and two one-parameter families of dimensions 14 and 15.
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