Optimal paths for symmetric actions in the unitary group

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2041-XzbMATH Open1298.22007arXiv1107.2439OpenAlexW2020413305MaRDI QIDQ2016038FDOQ2016038

Jorge Antezana, Gabriel Larotonda, A. Varela

Publication date: 18 June 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a positive and unitarily invariant Lagrangian L defined in the algebra of Hermitian matrices, and a fixed interval $[a,b]subsetmathbbR$, we study the action defined in the Lie group of $nimesn$ unitary matrices $mathcalU(n)$ by ${\displaystyle }$ S(alpha)=int_a^b L(dotalpha(t)),dt,, ${\displaystyle }$ where $alpha:[a,b]omathcalU(n)$ is a rectifiable curve. We prove that the one-parameter subgroups of $mathcalU(n)$ are the optimal paths, provided the spectrum of the exponent is bounded by $pi$. Moreover, if L is strictly convex, we prove that one-parameter subgroups are the unique optimal curves joining given endpoints. Finally, we also study the connection of these results with unitarily invariant metrics in $mathcalU(n)$ as well as angular metrics in the Grassmann manifold

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2439

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Miscellaneous inequalities involving matrices (15A45) Orthogonal matrices (15B10) Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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