Semicontinuity of compact group actions on compact differentiable manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF01194103MaRDI QIDQ1820474zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Young Wook Kim

Publication date 1987

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01194103

zbMATH Keywords

isometry groupsmall deformations of the metricuppersemicontinuous

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

Review text

This paper shows a geometrically natural theorem in a natural way, i.e., a geometric object depends on the metric structure of the object in an uppersemicontinuous way. Roughly, it is proved that small deformations of the metric structures on a compact manifold will diminish, or at least not increase, the amount of symmetry (i.e., the isometry group). The author also generalizes this theorem to prove that, in the group of diffeomorphisms on M, Diff(M), every compact Lie subgroup sufficiently close to a given compact Lie subgroup is isomorphic to a subgroup of the given one. This generalizes a theorem of \textit{D. Montgomery} and \textit{L. Zippin} [Topological transformation groups (1955; Zbl 0068.019), p. 216]. There followed related results. Firstly, the result by \textit{R. S. Palais} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 67, 362-364 (1961; Zbl 0102.381)], and in the same vein, but more naturally, by \textit{K. Grove} and \textit{H. Karcher} [Math. Z. 132, 11-20 (1973; Zbl 0245.57016)]; more generally, but less naturally, by \textit{D. G. Ebin} [Global Analysis, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 15, 11-40 (1970; Zbl 0205.537)]; also in several complex variables, by \textit{R. E. Greene} and \textit{S. G. Krantz} [Math. Z. 190, 455-467 (1985; Zbl 0584.58014)].

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• Semicontinuity of automorphism groups in one complex variable
• A new invariant metric and applications
• Short survey on the existence of slices for the space of Riemannian metrics

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