On distinguished orbits of reductive representations

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Abstract: Let G be a real reductive Lie group and au:GlongrightarrowGL(V) be a real reductive representation of G with (restricted) moment map mggo:V0longrightarrowggo. In this work, we introduce the notion of "nice space" of a real reductive representation to study the problem of how to determine if a G-orbit is "distinguished" (i.e. it contains a critical point of the norm squared of mggo). We give an elementary proof of the well-known convexity theorem of Atiyah-Guillemin-Sternberg in our particular case and we use it to give an easy-to-check sufficient condition for a G-orbit of a element in a nice space to be distinguished. In the case where G is algebraic and au is a rational representation, the above condition is also necessary (making heavy use of recent results of M. Jablonski), obtaining a generalization of Nikolayevsky's nice basis criterium. We also provide useful characterizations of nice spaces in terms of the weights of au. Finally, some applications to ternary forms and minimal metrics on nilmanifolds are presented.









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