A bijection between the adjoint and coadjoint orbits of a semidirect product (Q1733261)

The central result of te paper is the existence of a geometric bijection between the sets of adjoint and coadjoint orbits of a semidirect product group as long as a similar bijections holds for particular subgroups, Wigner little groups and centralizer subgroups. This result extends the bijection obtained for the Poincaré group in [\textit{R. Cushman} et al., Acta Appl. Math. 90, No. 1-2, 65--89 (2006; Zbl 1161.22013)]. The author uses his method to give the bijections for the affine group of isomorphisms of affine space and the Poincaré group of affine linear maps preserving Minkowski space. He also gives a method for proving that an adjoint and a coadjoint orbit in bijection with each other are homotopy equivalent, in particular in the case of the affine and the Poincaré group.