Polar actions on Hilbert space |
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Authors: | Chuu-Lian Terng |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, 02115, Boston, MA
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Abstract: | An isometricH-action on a Riemannian manifoldX is calledpolar if there exists a closed submanifoldS ofX that meets everyH-orbit and always meets orbits orthogonally (S is called a section). LetG be a compact Lie group equipped with a biinvariant metric,H a closed subgroup ofG ×G, and letH act onG isometrically by (h
1,h
2) ·x = h
1
xh
2
−1
· LetP(G, H) denote the group ofH
1-pathsg: 0, 1] →G such that (g(0),g (1)) ∈H, and letP(G, H) act on the Hilbert spaceV = H
0(0, 1], g) isometrically byg * u = gug
−1 −g′g
−1. We prove that if the action ofH onG is polar with a flat section then the action ofP(G, H) onV is polar. Principal orbits of polar actions onV are isoparametric submanifolds ofV and are infinite-dimensional generalized real or complex flag manifolds. We also note that the adjoint actions of affine
Kac-Moody groups and the isotropy action corresponding to an involution of an affine Kac-Moody group are special examples
ofP(G, H)-actions for suitable choice ofH andG.
Work supported partially by NSF Grant DMS 8903237 and by The Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn. |
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Keywords: | Math Subject Classification" target="_blank">Math Subject Classification 57S20 22E65 |
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