New examples of proper holomorphic maps among symmetric domains (Q494160)

The new work in this paper is essentially a characterization of monomial maps \(g\) satisfying rather specific conditions: \(g\) maps \(\mathbb{P}^{2r-1}\) to \(\mathbb{P}^{2r+1}\) with \(r \geq 2\); \(g\) maps the ``generalized ball'' \[ D_{r,r} := \big\{ | z_1 | ^2 + \dots + | z_r | ^2 > | z_{r+1} | ^2 + \dots + | z_{2r} | ^2 \big\} \] to \(D_{r+1,r+1}\); and the formula \[ | g_1 | ^2 + \dots + | g_{r+1} | ^2 - | g_{r+2} | ^2 - \dots - | g_{2r+2} | ^2 \] meets certain additional criteria. The result -- that there are only three equivalence classes of such \(g\) (for any fixed \(r\)) -- comes from a careful accounting of the possibilities for a particular homogeneous polynomial defined in terms of the given formula. What makes this result useful is the connection between the particular set of monomial maps considered and maps between certain symmetric domains where invariantly geodesic subspaces are preserved, which the paper exploits to characterize the latter as well. Although the main result of the paper (Theorem 1.3) is a quite restrictive characterization of a specific type of holomorphic maps between symmetric domains, a quite interesting additional component of the paper is the collection in \S 4.3 of several well-considered examples that indicate how much richer the set of such maps can be in general. The examples are explicit and clear, and provide a useful means for concretely exploring the nature of maps between bounded symmetric domains of type I and their connections to monomial maps that restrict to maps between generalized balls.