Some remarks on G-actions with sections

MaRDI QIDQ1589931zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Elisa Cage Casini

Publication date 10 October 2002

Published in Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.numdam.org/item?id=RSMUP_2000__103__157_0, https://eudml.org/doc/108517

zbMATH Keywords

\(G\)-orbitnonpositive sectional curvaturesprincipal orbitsset of regular pointstotally geodesic submanifoldvariationally completeWeyl chambersWeyl group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Review text

The author considers a complete Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) and an action on this manifold by a closed Lie subgroup \(G\) of the full isometry group \(I(M,g)\), where the action admits a section, that is, admits a closed connected submanifold \(\Sigma\) which meets every \(G\)-orbit orthogonally. The author gives complete proofs of several results which do not appear in the literature. For example, she proves that the set of regular points in \(\Sigma\) both open and dense in \(\Sigma\), and proves that each section \(\Sigma\) is a totally geodesic submanifold. The author then imposes the additional hypothesis that \(M\) has nonpositive sectional curvatures and applies the Morse-theoretic methods of Bott to the study of \(M\). She shows that the action is variationally complete; relates strong Jacobi fields, strong focal points, and singular non-exceptional points of principal orbits; and studies Weyl chambers and the Weyl group defined by the action.

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 23362
• Homogeneous spaces with sections
• A General Theory of Canonical Forms
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3982092
• Variationally complete actions on nonnegatively curved manifolds

Cites work

• A General Theory of Canonical Forms
• An application of the Morse theory to the topology of Lie-groups
• Applications of the Theory of Morse to Symmetric Spaces
• Critical point theory and submanifold geometry
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3760955 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 622521 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1101557 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3796727 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3390006 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3194988 (Why is no real title available?)
• Orthogonally transversal submanifolds and the generalizations of the Weyl group
• Variational completeness and K-transversal domains

Cited in

(7)

• Variationally complete actions on nonnegatively curved manifolds
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3982092 (Why is no real title available?)
• A General Theory of Canonical Forms
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1785252 (Why is no real title available?)
• Basic differential forms for actions of Lie groups
• Lie Groups and Geometric Aspects of Isometric Actions
• A generalization of the Weyl group

This page was built for publication: Some remarks on \(G\)-actions with sections

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1589931)