For studying homogeneous geodesics in Riemannian and pseudoRiemannian geometry (on reductive homogeneous spaces) there is a simple algebraic formula which involves the reductive decomposition g = h +m of the Lie algebra g of the isometry group G and the scalar product on m induced by the metric. In the affine differential geometry, there is not such a universal formula. In the present paper, we propose a simple method of investigation of affine homogeneous geodesics. As an application, we describe homogeneous geodesics for homogeneous affine connections in dimension 2 and we find families of affine g.o. spaces in dimension 2. We also solved the problem of the canonical re-parametrization of affine homogeneous geodesics.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). 53B05, 53C30.
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