Foliations invariant under Lie group transverse actions

In this paper we study (smooth and holomorphic) foliations which are invariant under transverse actions of Lie groups. Authors’ address: Alexandre Behague and Bruno Scárdua, Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68530, 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil     

Markov processes invariant under a Lie group action

We show that a Markov process in a manifold invariant under the action of a compact Lie group K$K$ induces a Lévy process in each K$K$-orbit by “forcing” it to run in the orbit.     

Normally contracting Lie group actions

We show that there are no normally contracting actions of unimodular Lie groups on closed manifolds.     

Rigidity of group actions on solvable Lie groups

We establish analogs of the three Bieberbach theorems for a lattice in a semidirect product where is a connected, simply connected solvable Lie group and is a compact subgroup of its automorphism group. We first prove that the action of on is metrically equivalent to an action of on a supersolvable Lie group. The latter is shown to be determined by itself up to an affine diffeomorphism. Then we characterize these lattices algebraically as polycrystallographic groups. Furthermore, we realize any polycrystallographic group as a lattice in a semidirect product with being a finite group whose order is bounded by a constant only depending on the dimension of . This generalization of the first Bieberbach theorem is used to obtain a partial generalization of the third one as well. Finally we show for any torsion free closed subgroup that the quotient is the total space of a vector bundle over a compact manifold B, where B is the quotient of a solvable Lie group by a torsion free polycrystallographic group. Received: 27 August 1999     

Transversal Lie group actions on abstract CR manifolds

Supported by NSF Grant DMS 8603176     

A Borsuk-Ulam Theorem for compact Lie group actions

Let G be a compact Lie group. Let X, Y be free G-spaces. In this paper, we consider the question of the existence of G-maps f : X → Y . As a consequence, we obtain a theorem about the existence of ℤ_p-coincidence points. *The author was supported by FAPESP of Brazil Grant 01/02226-9.     

From Lie algebras of vector fields to algebraic group actions

The action of an affine algebraic group G on an algebraic variety V can be differentiated to a representation of the Lie algebra L(G) of G by derivations on the sheaf of regular functions on V . Conversely, if one has a finite-dimensional Lie algebra L and a homomorphism ρ : L → Der_K(K[U]) for an affine algebraic variety U, one may wonder whether it comes from an algebraic group action on U or on a variety V containing U as an open subset. In this paper, we prove two results on this integration problem. First, if L acts faithfully and locally finitely on K[U], then it can be embedded in L(G), for some affine algebraic group G acting on U, in such a way that the representation of L(G) corresponding to that action restricts to ρ on L. In the second theorem, we assume from the start that L = L(G) for some connected affine algebraic group G and show that some technical but necessary conditions on ρ allow us to integrate ρ to an action of G on an algebraic variety V containing U as an open dense subset. In the interesting cases where L is nilpotent or semisimple, there is a natural choice for G, and our technical conditions take a more appealing form.     

Invariant Lie Algebras and Lie Algebras with a Small Centroid

A subalgebra of a Lie algebra is said to be invariant if it is invariant under the action of some Cartan subalgebra of that algebra. A known theorem of Melville says that a nilpotent invariant subalgebra of a finite-dimensional semisimple complex Lie algebra has a small centroid. The notion of a Lie algebra with small centroid extends to a class of all finite-dimensional algebras. For finite-dimensional algebras of zero characteristic with semisimple derivations in a sufficiently broad class, their centroid is proved small. As a consequence, it turns out that every invariant subalgebra of a finite-dimensional reductive Lie algebra over an arbitrary definition field of zero characteristic has a small centroid.