Invariant almost complex structures on real flag manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10231-018-0751-YMaRDI QIDQ1756470zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ana P. C. Freitas, Viviana del Barco, Luiz A. B. San Martin

Publication date 14 January 2019

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01218

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous manifoldinvariant almost complex structureisotropy representationreal flag manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogeneous spaces (22F30) Almost complex manifolds (32Q60) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: In this work we study the existence of invariant almost complex structures on real flag manifolds associated to split real forms of complex simple Lie algebras. We show that, contrary to the complex case where the invariant almost complex structures are well known, some real flag manifolds do not admit such structures. We check which invariant almost complex structures are integrable and prove that only some flag manifolds of the Lie algebra $C_l$ admit complex structures.

Review text

In the present article the authors study the existence of invariant almost complex structures on real flag manifolds associated to split real forms of complex simple Lie algebras. Even though the invariant geometry of complex flag manifolds has been extensively studied (since Borel) the invariant geometric structures of real flag manifolds have not been extensively studied. A flag manifold of a non-compact semisimple Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) is a quotient space \(F_{\Theta} = G/P_\Theta\), where \(G\) is a connected group with Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) and \(P_\Theta\) is a parabolic subgroup. If \(K\subset G\) is a maximal compact subgroup and \(K_\Theta = K \cap P_\Theta\), then the flag \(F_\Theta\) can be written in the form \(F_\Theta = K/K_\Theta\). The authors study the existence and integrability of invariant almost complex structures on real flagmanifolds \(F_\Theta\) in the case that \(\mathfrak{g}\) is a split real form of a complex simple Lie algebra. They investigate which of the real flag manifolds \(F_\Theta\) admit \(K\)-invariant almost complex structures and then verify their integrability, that is, when they are indeed complex structures. They prove the following: {\parindent=0.7cm \begin{itemize}\item[1)] A real flag manifold \(F_\Theta = K/K_\Theta\) admits a \(K\)-invariant almost complex structure if and only if it is a maximal flag of type \(A_3\), \(B_2\), \(G_2\), \(C_l\) for \(l\) even or \(D_l\) for \(l \geq 4\), or if it is one of the intermediate flags \(B_3, C_l, D_4\). \item[2)] A real flag manifold \(F_\Theta = K/K_\Theta\) admits \(K\)-invariant complex structures if and only if it is of type \(C_l\). The proof uses results about the isotropy representation of real flag manifolds in [\textit{M. Patrão} and \textit{L. A. B. San Martin}, Indag. Math., New Ser. 26, No. 3, 547--579 (2015; Zbl 1360.22020)]. \end{itemize}}

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