Lifts of diffeomorphisms of orbit spaces for representations of compact Lie groups (Q5956142)

The author studies the lifting problem of diffeomorphisms of the orbit space \(V/G\) for an orthogonal representation \(G\to O(V)\) of a compact Lie group \(G\). The main result of the paper is that each diffeomorphism of the orbit space \(V/G\) has a smooth lift to \(V\) for a finite group \(G\) and for the isotropy representation of some symmetric spaces. The author also investigates the diffeomorphism group \(\text{Diff}(V/G)\) of the orbit space \(V/G\); especially the component group \(\pi_0(\text{Diff}(V/G))\) of \(\text{Diff}(V/G)\). In the cases of a finite reflection group \(G= W\) in \(V\) and the diagonal action of a Weyl group \(W\) in \(V^p\), the full computations of the groups \(\pi_0(\text{Diff}(V/W))\) and \(\pi_0(\text{Diff}(V^p/W))\) are given.