Equations Defining Symmetric Varieties and Affine Grassmannians

Suppose be a simpleinvolution of a semisimple algebraic group and suppose H is the subgroup of G of pointsfixed by . If the restrictedroot system is of type or and G is simplyconnected, or if the restricted root system is of type and G is of adjoint type, then we describe astandard monomial theory and the equations for the coordinatering using the standardmonomial theory and the Plücker relations of an appropriate(maybe infinite-dimensional) Grassmann variety.     

Symmetric spaces of graphs

Under consideration are the classes of graphs closed under modulo 2 addition, vertex permutation, and removal of isolated vertices. It is proved that there are exactly five these classes.     

On a construction of affine Grassmannians and spine spaces

In this paper we introduce the notion of spine space, generalizing the notion of affine grassmannians. We describe the set of strong subspaces of a spine space (Thm. 2.6, 2.7), construct the horizon of a spine space, and study the automorphisms of a spine space. Received 20 October 1999; revised 15 March 2000.     

Symmetric relations and module spaces

We study module spaces for linear relations (multi-valued operators) in a Hilbert space. The defect spaces are not required to be finite-dimensional. In particular we pay attention to module spaces for symmetric relations.     

Non-linear Grassmannians as coadjoint orbits

For a given manifold M we consider the non-linear Grassmann manifold Gr _n (M) of n–dimensional submanifolds in M. A closed (n+2)–form on M gives rise to a closed 2–form on Gr _n (M). If the original form was integral, the 2–form will be the curvature of a principal S ¹ –bundle over Gr _n (M). Using this S ¹ –bundle one obtains central extensions for certain groups of diffeomorphisms of M. We can realize Gr _m–2 (M) as coadjoint orbits of the extended group of exact volume preserving diffeomorphisms and the symplectic Grassmannians SGr _2k (M) as coadjoint orbits in the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):58B20Both authors are supported by the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austrian Science Fund), project number P14195-MAT     

On polyvectors of vector spaces and hyperplanes of projective Grassmannians

We investigate relationships between polyvectors of a vector space V, alternating multilinear forms on V, hyperplanes of projective Grassmannians and regular spreads of projective spaces. Suppose V is an n-dimensional vector space over a field F and that A_n-1,k(F) is the Grassmannian of the (k − 1)-dimensional subspaces of PG(V) (1  ? k ? n − 1). With each hyperplane H of A_n-1,k(F), we associate an (n − k)-vector of V (i.e., a vector of ∧^n−kV) which we will call a representative vector of H. One of the problems which we consider is the isomorphism problem of hyperplanes of A_n-1,k(F), i.e., how isomorphism of hyperplanes can be recognized in terms of their representative vectors. Special attention is paid here to the case n = 2k and to those isomorphisms which arise from dualities of PG(V). We also prove that with each regular spread of the projective space PG(2k-1,F), there is associated some class of isomorphic hyperplanes of the Grassmannian A_2k-1,k(F), and we study some properties of these hyperplanes. The above investigations allow us to obtain a new proof for the classification, up to equivalence, of the trivectors of a 6-dimensional vector space over an arbitrary field F, and to obtain a classification, up to isomorphism, of all hyperplanes of A_5,3(F).     

Symmetric spaces with maximal projection constants

In this paper we introduce a special class of finite-dimensional symmetric subspaces of L₁, so-called regular symmetric subspaces. Using this notion, we show that for any k?2, there exist k-dimensional symmetric subspaces of L₁ which have maximal projection constant among all k-dimensional symmetric spaces. Moreover, L₁ is a maximal overspace for these spaces (see Theorems 4.4 and 4.5.) Also a new asymptotic lower bound for projection constants of symmetric spaces is obtained (see Theorem 5.3). This result answers the question posed in [12, p. 36] (see also [15, p. 38]) by H. Koenig and co-authors. The above results are presented both in real and complex cases.     

Symmetric kernel of Rademacher multiplicator spaces

Let X be a rearrangement invariant (r.i.) function space on [0,1]. We consider the Rademacher multiplicator space Λ(R,X) of measurable functions x such that xh∈X for every a.e. converging series h=∑a_nr_n∈X, where (r_n) are the Rademacher functions. We show that for a broad class of r.i. spaces X, the space Λ(R,X) is not r.i. In this case, we identify the symmetric kernel of the Rademacher multiplicator space and study when reduces to L^∞. In the opposite direction, we find new examples of r.i. spaces for which Λ(R,X) is r.i. We consider in detail the case when X is a Marcinkiewicz or an exponential Orlicz space.     

Symmetric parabolic contact geometries and symmetric spaces

We discuss parabolic contact geometries carrying a smooth system of symmetries. We show that there is a symmetric space such that the parabolic geometry $ \left( {\mathcal{G}\to M,\omega } \right) $ is a fibre bundle over this symmetric space if and only if the base manifold M is a homogeneous reexion space. We investigate the conditions under which there is an invariant geometric structure on this symmetric space induced by the parabolic contact geometry.     

Symmetric block bases in finite-dimensional normed spaces

It is shown that for 1 ≦p < ∞, any basisC-equivalent to the unit vector basis ofl _p ⁿ has a (1 + ε)-symmetric block basis of cardinality proportional ton/logn. When 1 <p < ∞, an upper bound proportional ton log logn/logn is also obtained. These results extend results of Amir and Milman in [2].