Geometry of symmetric spaces of type EVI (Q6568823)

The paper generalize Atsuyama's result on the geometry of symmetric spaces of type EVI to the case of fields of characteristic zero. The authors relate the possible mutual positions of two points with the classification of balanced symplectic ternary algebras (also known as Freudenthal triple systems).\N\NFor a semisimple linear algebraic group \(G\) denote by \(S(G)\) the variety of all subgroups of type \(A_1\) such that the embedding of the corresponding Lie algebras is of Dynkin multiindex \((0,\ldots,1,\ldots, 0)\).\N\NThen, the following result is proved:\N\NTheorem. Let \(A\) and \(B\) be two points in \(S(G)\) with anisotropic \(G\) of type \(E_7\). Then the set of lines passing through both \(A\) and \(B\) can be identified with the set of the rational points of a symmetric space, which has one of the following types:\N\N1. \(D_6/D_4 + 2A_1\) (when \(A\) = \(B\));\N\N2. \(D_4/4A_1\coprod \hbox{pt}\) (when \(A\) and \(B\) commute);\N\N3. \(B_3/3A_1\coprod \hbox{pt}\);\N\N4. \(A_3/A_2 \cdot G_m\prod \hbox{pt}\);\N\N5. \(B_2/2A_1\prod\hbox{pt}\);\N\N6. \(\hbox{pt}\prod\hbox{pt}\prod \hbox{pt}\) (in the general position);\N\N7. \(A_5/A_3 + A_1\);\N\N8. \(C_3/C_2 + A_1\).