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

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2018.12.005MaRDI QIDQ1733261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Philip Arathoon

Publication date 21 March 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08406, http://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/2740/1/UpdatedPaper2.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

adjoint orbitscoadjoint orbitsPoincaré group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

The central result of te paper is the existence of a geometric bijection between the sets of adjoint and coadjoint orbits of a semidirect product group as long as a similar bijections holds for particular subgroups, Wigner little groups and centralizer subgroups. This result extends the bijection obtained for the Poincaré group in [\textit{R. Cushman} et al., Acta Appl. Math. 90, No. 1-2, 65--89 (2006; Zbl 1161.22013)]. The author uses his method to give the bijections for the affine group of isomorphisms of affine space and the Poincaré group of affine linear maps preserving Minkowski space. He also gives a method for proving that an adjoint and a coadjoint orbit in bijection with each other are homotopy equivalent, in particular in the case of the affine and the Poincaré group.

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