Holomorphic diffeomorphisms of complex semisimple Lie groups

Abstract: The density property for a Stein manifold X implies that the group of holomorphic diffeomorphisms of X is infinite-dimensional and, in a certain well-defined sense, as large as possible. We prove that if G is a complex semisimple Lie group of adjoint type and K is a reductive subgroup, then G/K has the density property. This theorem is a non-trivial extension of an earlier result of ours, which handles the case of complex semi-simple Lie groups. We also establish the density property for some other complex homogeneous spaces by ad hoc methods. Finally, we introduce a lifting method that extends many results on complex manifolds with the density property to covering spaces of such manifolds.

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Let \(M\) be a complex manifold and \(\mathcal X_{\Theta}(M)\) be the Lie algebra of holomorphic vector fields on \(M\). One can endow \(\mathcal X_{\Theta}(M)\) with the local uniform topology. Consider its Lie subalgebra generated by the completely integrable vector fields. \(M\) is said to have the density property if the subalgebra is dense in \(\mathcal X_{\Theta}(M)\). In the present paper the authors prove that any complex semisimple Lie group \(G\) has the density property. To prove the result they use the representation theory of finite dimensional representations of \(G\), and use the concept of shears, which is defined as the kernel of a vector field when acting on the space of holomorphic functions and which roughly corresponds to the concept of highest weight vectors in representation theory.

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