A bijection between the adjoint and coadjoint orbits of a semidirect product

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2018.12.005zbMATH Open1459.17012arXiv1806.08406OpenAlexW2907774938WikidataQ115355011 ScholiaQ115355011MaRDI QIDQ1733261FDOQ1733261

Authors: Philip Arathoon 

Publication date: 21 March 2019

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that there exists a geometric bijection between the sets of adjoint and coadjoint orbits of a semidirect product, provided a similar bijection holds for particular subgroups. We also show that under certain conditions the homotopy types of any two orbits in bijection with each other are the same. We apply our theory to the examples of the affine group and the Poincar'{e} group, and discuss the limitations and extent of this result to other groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08406

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zbMATH Keywords

coadjoint orbits[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Poincar%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD+group&go=Go Poincar�� group]adjoint orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

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