Harmonic morphisms from the classical compact semisimple Lie groups (Q927170)

An interesting topic is to produce harmonic morphisms between Riemannian or semi-Riemannian manifolds (that is, maps which pull back local harmonic functions to local harmonic functions), see [\textit{P. Baird} and \textit{J. C. Wood}, Harmonic morphisms between Riemannian manifolds. London Mathematical Society Monographs. New Series 29. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2003; Zbl 1055.53049)]. The notion of an eigenfamily on a semi-Riemannian manifold can be used to produce a variety of local harmonic morphisms. In this paper, some results provide eigenfamilies on the Lie groups SL\(_n(\mathbb R)\), SU\(^*(2n)\) and Sp\((n,\mathbb R)\). Here, the first known complex valued harmonic morphisms from the above non-compact Lie groups endowed with their standard Riemannian metrics are given. The notion of eigenfamily is generalized to bi-eigenfamily in order to construct the first known solutions on the non-compact Riemannian SO\(^*(2n)\), SO\((p,q)\), SU\((p,q)\) and Sp\((p,q)\). The authors show how a real analytic bi-eigenfamily on a Riemannian non-compact semi-simple Lie group \(G\) gives rise to a real-analytic bi-eigenfamily on its semi-Riemannian compact dual and vice-versa. The method of proof is borrowed from the related duality principle for harmonic morphisms from Riemannian symmetric spaces [\textit{S. Gudmundsson} and \textit{M. Svensson}, Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 30, No.~4, 313--333 (2006; Zbl 1103.58007)]. This duality principle is here applied to the first known complex valued harmonic morphisms from the compact Lie groups SO\((n)\), SU\((n)\) and Sp\((n)\) equipped with semi-Riemannian metrics.