Compactification of semi-simple Lie groups

Authors Pierre Albin, Panagiotis Dimakis, Richard Melrose, David A. jun. Vogan

Publication date 7 October 2019

Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27) Compactification of analytic spaces (32J05) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20)

Abstract: We discuss the `hd-compactification' of a semi-simple Lie group to a manifold with corners; it is the real analog of the wonderful compactification of deConcini and Procesi. There is a 1-1 correspondence between the boundary faces of the compactification and conjugacy classes of parabolic subgroups with the boundary face fibering over two copies of the corresponding flag variety with fiber modeled on the (compactification of the) reductive part. On the hd-compactification Harish-Chandra's Schwartz space is identified with a space of conormal functions of rapid-logarithmic decay relative to square-integrable functions.

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