The Bott-Borel-Weil Theorem for direct limit groups

We show how highest weight representations of certain infinite dimensional Lie groups can be realized on cohomology spaces of holomorphic vector bundles. This extends the classical Bott-Borel-Weil Theorem for finite-dimensional compact and complex Lie groups. Our approach is geometric in nature, in the spirit of Bott's original generalization of the Borel-Weil Theorem. The groups for which we prove this theorem are strict direct limits of compact Lie groups, or their complexifications. We previously proved that such groups have an analytic structure. Our result applies to most of the familiar examples of direct limits of classical groups. We also introduce new examples involving iterated embeddings of the classical groups and see exactly how our results hold in those cases. One of the technical problems here is that, in general, the limit Lie algebras will have root systems but need not have root spaces, so we need to develop machinery to handle this somewhat delicate situation.

     

Rigidity of infinitesimal momentum maps

In this paper we prove rigidity theorems for Poisson Lie group actions on Poisson manifolds. In particular, we prove that close infinitesimal momentum maps associated to Poisson Lie group actions are equivalent using a normal form theorem for SCI spaces. When the Poisson structure of the acted manifold is integrable, this yields rigidity also for lifted actions to the symplectic groupoid.     

On transitive topological group actions

We prove a general theorem on transitive topological group actions that give rise to almost ?ech-complete homogeneous spaces. This theorem implies the known open mapping theorems whose proof is a Baire category argument. As an application, we prove the uniform generalized Schönflies theorem generalizing Wright (1969) [19, Theorem 3].     

Isotropy Subgroups of Transformation Groups

In this paper we consider transitive actions of Lie groups on analytic manifolds. We study three cases of analytic manifolds and their corresponding transformation groups. Given a free action on the left, we define left orbit spaces and consider actions on the right by maximal compact subgroups. We show that these actions are transitive and find the corresponding isotropy subgroups. Further, we show that the left orbit spaces are reductive homogeneous spaces. This article thus forms the basis of a forthcoming paper on invariant differential operators on homogeneous manifolds. Partially supported by a Carver Research Initiative Grant.     

Naturally reductive homogeneous Finsler spaces

In this paper, we study naturally reductive Finsler metrics. We first give a sufficient and necessary condition for a Finsler metric to be naturally reductive with respect to certain transitive group of isometries. Then we study in detail the left invariant naturally reductive metrics on compact Lie groups and give a method to construct the non-Riemannian ones. Further, we give a classification of left invariant naturally reductive metrics on nilpotent Lie groups. Finally, we give a classification of all the naturally reductive Finsler spaces of dimension less or qual to 4. As applications, we obtain some rigidity theorems about naturally reductive Finsler metrics. Namely, any left invariant non-symmetric naturally reductive Finsler metric on a compact simple Lie group or an indecomposable nilpotent Lie group must be Riemannian. On the other hand, we provide a very convenient method to construct non-symmetric Berwald spaces which are neither Riemannian nor locally Minkowskian, a kind of spaces which are sought after in the book by Bao et al. (An introduction to Riemann–Finsler geometry, GTM 200, 2000).     

Tight Homomorphisms and Hermitian Symmetric Spaces

We introduce the notion of tight homomorphism into a locally compact group with nonvanishing bounded cohomology and study these homomorphisms in detail when the target is a Lie group of Hermitian type. Tight homomorphisms between Lie groups of Hermitian type give rise to tight totally geodesic maps of Hermitian symmetric spaces. We show that tight maps behave in a functorial way with respect to the Shilov boundary and use this to prove a general structure theorem for tight homomorphisms. Furthermore, we classify all tight embeddings of the Poincaré disk.     

Notes on Embedding Theorems for Local Hardy spaces

In this note we establish an embedding theorem (Theorem 2.4) for local Hardy spaces in the sense of GOLDBERG [G]. This result is a non-homogeneous version of the theorem of BAERNSTEIN and SAWYER (Theorem BS). Also applying this theorem we establish embedding theorem and Fourier embedding theorem (Theorem 4.2, Theorem 4.3 and Corollary 4.4) for local Hardy spaces.     

On the classification of weakly symmetric Finsler spaces

In this paper, we give the classification of some special types of weakly symmetric Finsler spaces. We first present a general principle to classify weakly symmetric Finsler spaces and also give a method to figure out the Berwald spaces among the class of weakly symmetric Finsler spaces. Then we give an explicit classification of weakly symmetric Finsler spaces with reductive isometric groups as well as the left invariant weakly symmetric Finsler metrics on nilpotent Lie groups of the Heisenberg type. As an application, we obtain a large number of high-dimensional examples of reversible Finsler spaces which are non-Berwaldian and with vanishing S-curvature, a kind of spaces which are sought after in an open problem of Z. Shen.     

New geometric examples of Anosov actions

We study a new class of Anosov actions (in the sense of Hirsch, Pugh and Shub) of reductive Lie groups, which are related to Riemannian symmetric spaces of non-compact type. The orbits of these actions can be identified with unions of parallel geodesics and the resulting orbit spaces are symplectic manifolds. For symmetric spaces of rank 1 all actions coincide with the geodesic flow.     

Some infinite dimensional representations of reductive groups with Frobenius maps

In this paper,we construct certain irreducible infinite dimensional representations of algebraic groups with Frobenius maps.In particular,a few classical results of Steinberg and Deligne&Lusztig on complex representations of finite groups of Lie type are extended to reductive algebraic groups with Frobenius maps.     

Fundamental groups of compact manifolds and symmetric geometry of noncompact type

We introduce the notion of geometrical engagement for actions of semisimple Lie groups and their lattices as a concept closely related to Zimmer's topological engagement condition. Our notion is a geometrical criterion in the sense that it makes use of Riemannian distances. However, it can be used together with the foliated harmonic map techniques introduced in [8] to establish foliated geometric superrigidity results for both actions and geometric objects. In particular, we improve the applications of the main theorem in [9] to consider nonpositively curved compact manifolds (not necessarily with strictly negative curvature). We also establish topological restrictions for Riemannian manifolds whose universal cover have a suitable symmetric de Rham factor (Theorem B), as well as geometric obstructions for nonpositively curved compact manifolds to have fundamental groups isomorphic to certain groups build out of cocompact lattices in higher rank simple Lie groups (Corollary 4.5). Received: October 22, 1997     

Towards Lim

The paper contains an elegant extension of the Nadler fixed point theorem for multivalued contractions (see Theorem 21). It is based on a new idea of the α-step mappings (see Definition 17) being more efficient than α-contractions. In the present paper this theorem is a tool in proving some fixed point theorems for “nonexpansive” mappings in the bead spaces (metric spaces that, roughly speaking, are modelled after convex sets in uniformly convex spaces). More precisely the mappings are nonexpansive on a set with respect to only one point - the centre of this set (see condition (4)). The results are pretty general. At first we assume that the value of the mapping under consideration at this central point looks “sharp” (see Definition 6). This idea leads to a group of theorems (based on Theorem 7). Their proofs are compact and the theorems, in particular, are natural extensions of the classical results for (usual) nonexpansive mappings. In the second part we apply the idea of Lim to investigate the regular sequences and here the proofs are based on our extension of Nadler's Theorem. In consequence we obtain some fixed point theorems that generalise the classical Lim Theorem for multivalued nonexpansive mappings (see e.g. Theorem 26).     

Lie Sphere Geometry in Hubert Spaces

We develop Lie sphere geometry for arbitrary real pre-Hilbert spaces of (finite or infinite) dimension at least 2. One of the main results is that a bijection of the set of all Laguerre cycles which preserves contact in one direction must already be a Lie transformation (THEOREM 2). As a first consequence of this theorem we get that a bijection of an arbitrary real pre-Hilbert space of dimension at least 3 which preserves Lorentz-Minkowski distance 0 in one direction must already be a (proper or improper) Lorentz boost up to a dilatation, a translation and an orthogonal mapping (THEOREM 3). This is a generalization of results of A.D. Alexandroff [1], E.M. Schröder [21] and F. Cacciafesta [7]. Another consequence is that a bijection of the set of all Lie cycles which preserves contact in one direction must already be a Lie transformation (THEOREM 4). If we apply this result to the finite dimensional case, we get that the diffeomorphism assumption in the Fundamental Theorem of Lie sphere geometry as stated in Theorem 1.5 in T.E. Cecil [8], p. 33, is not needed for the proof of this theorem (REMARK to THEOREM 4).     

De rham homology for networks of manifolds

This paper describes in terms of differential forms the real homology of a certain class of spaces, which we call networks. Networks include, besides smooth manifolds, singular sets of toral actions, classifying spaces of Lie groups, etc. A generalized Thom isomorphism theorem is also proved in this context.     

Transitive Isometry Groups of Aspheric Riemannian Manifolds

We consider the isometry groups of Riemannian solvmanifolds and also study a wider class of homogeneous aspheric Riemannian spaces. We clarify the topological structure of these spaces (Theorem 1). We demonstrate that each Riemannian space with a maximally symmetric metric admits an almost simply transitive action of a Lie group with triangular radical (Theorem 2). We apply this result to studying the isometry groups of solvmanifolds and, in particular, solvable Lie groups with some invariant Riemannian metric.     

An implicit function theorem for Banach spaces and some applications

We prove a generalized implicit function theorem for Banach spaces, without the usual assumption that the subspaces involved being complemented. Then we apply it to the problem of parametrization of fibers of differentiable maps, the Lie subgroup problem for Banach–Lie groups, as well as Weil’s local rigidity for homomorphisms from finitely generated groups to Banach–Lie groups.      

Cartan decomposition of the moment map

We investigate a class of actions of real Lie groups on complex spaces. Using moment map techniques we establish the existence of a quotient and a version of Luna’s slice theorem as well as a version of the Hilbert–Mumford criterion. A global slice theorem is proved for proper actions. We give new proofs of results of Mostow on decompositions of groups and homogeneous spaces.First author partially supported by the Sonderforschungsbereich SFB/TR12 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the DFG Schwerpunk program Globale Methoden in der komplexen Geometrie.Second author partially supported by NSA grant H98230–04–01–0070.     

Towards a Lie theory of locally convex groups

In this survey, we report on the state of the art of some of the fundamental problems in the Lie theory of Lie groups modeled on locally convex spaces, such as integrability of Lie algebras, integrability of Lie subalgebras to Lie subgroups, and integrability of Lie algebra extensions to Lie group extensions. We further describe how regularity or local exponentiality of a Lie group can be used to obtain quite satisfactory answers to some of the fundamental problems. These results are illustrated by specialization to some specific classes of Lie groups, such as direct limit groups, linear Lie groups, groups of smooth maps and groups of diffeomorphisms.