Cycles of Bott-Samelson type for taut representations

DOI10.1023/A:1014911422026MaRDI QIDQ1597184zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Claudio Gorodski, Gudlaugur Thorbergsson

Publication date 12 May 2002

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101209, https://doi-org.ez67.periodicos.capes.gov.br/10.1023/A:1014911422026

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathbb{Z}_2\)-homologyorbitsreal flag manifoldtaut representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

Abstract: Bott and Samuelson constructed explicit cycles representing a basis of the Z_2-homology of the orbits of variationally complete representations of compact Lie groups. As a consequence, all those orbits are taut. We were able to show that an irreducible representation of a compact Lie group, all of whose orbits are taut, is either variationally complete or it is one of the following orthogonal representations (n bigger than or equal to 2): the (standard) x_R (spin) representation of SO(2)xSpin(9); or the (standard) x_C (standard) representation of U(2)xSp(n); or the (standard)^3 x_ H (standard) representation of SU(2)xSp(n). In this paper we will show how to adapt the construction of the cycles of Bott and Samelson to the orbits of these three representations. As a result, they also admit explicit cycles representing a basis of their Z_2-homology and, in particular, this provides another proof of their tautness.

Review text

A representation \(\rho: G\to\text O(V)\) of a connected compact Lie group \(G\) is called taut if the Morse inequalities for the distance function to any orbit of \(G\) in \(V\) are in fact equalities. The well known examples of taut irreducible representations are the isotropy representations of irreducible symmetric spaces. It was shown by the authors (Preprint, 2000), that, besides these examples, there exist only the following ones: \(G = \text{SO}(2)\times\text{SO}(9), \rho = \rho_1\otimes_{\mathbb R}\rho_2; G = \text U(2)\times\text{Sp}(n), \rho = \rho_1\otimes_{\mathbb C}\rho_2; G = \text{SU}(2)\times\text{Sp}(n), \rho = \rho_1^3\otimes_{\mathbb H}\rho_2\), where \(\rho_1\) and \(\rho_2\) are the standard representations of the first and of the second factor, respectively. In the paper, a new proof of tautness of these exceptional representations is contained, giving explicit cycles which represent the \(\mathbb Z_2\)-homology of their orbits. It is also proved that these representations are not variationally complete.

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