Order of orbits in homogeneous spaces (Q1912666)

The author studies the order of orbits in homogeneous spaces using contact theory. Let \(G\) be a compact connected Lie group and \(H\) a closed subgroup of \(G\). Consider the homogeneous space \(M = G/H\), the canonical projection \(\pi : G \to G/H\), the canonical action \(\alpha : G \times M \to M\). Let \(K \subset G\) be a closed subgroup and \(K(o)\) the orbit of \(o = \pi(H)\) under the restriction of \(\alpha\) to \(K\). Put \(\dim K(o) = n\). Let \(C^{s,n} M\) be the contact bundle of order \(s\) of \(n\)-dimensional submanifolds in \(M\) and \(C^s_x N\) the contact element of order \(s\) at \(x \in N\), of an \(n\)-dimensional submanifold \(N \subset M\). The canonical action \(\alpha\) induces an action \(\alpha^s\) of \(G\) on \(C^{s,n} M\). Using the isotropy subgroup \(G^s\) of \(G\) at \(C^s_o K(o)\), the author constructs the decreasing sequence \(H = G^0 \supset \dots \supset G^s \supset G^{s + 1} \supset \dots\) and a corresponding decreasing sequence of Lie subalgebras \(h = g^0 \supset \dots \supset g^s \supset g^{s + 1} \supset \dots\), and he proves that the first index \(r\) such that \(g^r = g^{r + 1}\) is the order of the orbit \(K(o)\).