Equigeodesics on generalized flag manifolds with \(\text{G}_2\)-type \(\mathfrak{t} \)-roots (Q2215990)

Let \(M=G/K\) be a reductive homogeneous space with reductive decomposition \(\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{k}\oplus\mathfrak{m}\), \(\mathfrak{m}\cong T_oM\), \(o=eK\). A curve in \(M\) of the form \(\gamma (t)=(\exp tX)\cdot o\) is called an equigeodesic curve if \(\gamma (t)\) is a geodesc with respect to any \(G\)-invariant metric on \(G/K\). The vector \(X\in\mathfrak{m}\) is called equigeodesic vector. The concept is similar (still different) to a geodesic orbit (g.o.) space \((G/K, g)\), where all geodesics (with respect to the \(G\)-invariant metric \(g\)) in \(G/K\) are homogeneous, i.e., of the form \(\gamma (t)=(\exp tX)\cdot o\). Equigeodesic curves were first studied by \textit{N. Cohen} et al. [Houston J. Math. 37, No. 1, 113--125 (2011; Zbl 1228.53053)], where they gave a simple algebraic characterization of equigeodesic vectors. Equigeodesic vectors are called structural (they belong to certain subspaces of \(\mathfrak{m}\), so one needs to identify them) or algebraic (they are obtained as solutions of non linear algebraic systems). In the present paper the author obtains a characterization of structural equigeodesic vectors for generalized flag manifolds \(G/K=G/C(T)\), where \(T\) is a torus in the compact simple Lie group \(G\), whose system of \(\mathfrak{t}\)-roots is of type \(G_2\), i.e. of the form \(\{\xi_1, \xi_2, \xi_1+\xi_2, 2\xi_1+\xi_2, 3\xi_1+\xi_2, 3\xi_1+2\xi_2\}\). These generalized flag manifolds are \(F_4/(\mathrm{U}(3)\times \mathrm{U}(1)), E_6/(\mathrm{U}(3)\times \mathrm{U}(3)), E_7/(\mathrm{U}(6)\times \mathrm{U}(1))\) and \(E_8/(E_6\times \mathrm{U}(1)\times \mathrm{U}(1))\). For these spaces she presents subspaces of \(\mathfrak{m}\) that contain structural equigeodesic vectors. This is achieved by taking into account the description of generalized flag manifolds in Lie terms, hence providing a Lie theoretic description of subspaces of \(\mathfrak{m}\) whose vectors are structural equigeodesc vectors.