Distinguished orbits of reductive groups

DOI10.1216/RMJ-2012-42-5-1521MaRDI QIDQ691509zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Jablonski

Publication date 3 December 2012

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3721, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1353939092

zbMATH Keywords

complexificationreductive groupsDistinguished orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20)

Abstract: We prove a generalization of a theorem of Borel-Harish-Chandra on closed orbits of linear actions of reductive groups. Consider a real reductive algebraic group $G$ acting linearly and rationally on a real vector space $V$. $G$ can be viewed as the real points of a complex reductive group $G^{m}athbbC$ which acts on $V^{m}athbbC:=VotimesmathbbC$. Borel-Harish-Chandra show that $G^{m}athbbCcdotvcapV$ is a finite union of $G$-orbits; moreover, $G^{m}athbbCcdotv$ is closed if and only if $Gcdotv$ is closed. We show that the same result holds not just for closed orbits but for the so-called distinguished orbits. An orbit is called distinguished if it contains a critical point of the norm squared of the moment map on projective space. Our main result compares the complex and real settings to show $Gcdotv$ is distinguished if and only if $G^{m}athbbCcdotv$ is distinguished. In addition, we show that if an orbit is distinguished, then under the negative gradient flow of the norm squared of the moment map the entire $G$-orbit collapses to a single $K$-orbit. This result holds in both the complex and real settings. We finish with some applications to the study of the left-invariant geometry of Lie groups.

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