The index of exceptional symmetric spaces

DOI10.4171/RMI/1240MaRDI QIDQ2039487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlos Olmos, Juan Sebastián Rodríguez, Jürgen Berndt

Publication date 5 July 2021

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06250

zbMATH Keywords

indexRiemannian symmetric spacesslice representationstotally geodesic submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Abstract: The index of a Riemannian symmetric space is the minimal codimension of a proper totally geodesic submanifold (Onishchik, 1980). There is a conjecture by the first two authors for how to calculate the index. In this paper we give an affirmative answer to this conjecture for the exceptional Riemannian symmetric spaces and for the classical symmetric spaces Sp(r,R)/U(r). Our methodology is new and based on the idea of using slice representations for studying totally geodesic submanifolds.

Review text

In this paper, the authors deduce a new method for the calculation of the index of classical symmetric spaces taking $r>5$ using slice representations that are similar to the developed by the first two authors [J. Differ. Geom. 104, No. 2, 187--217 (2016; Zbl 1356.53054)] for $r=3,4,5$. In view of these method the authors mentioned Theorem 3.1 that play an eminent role in GRW-spacetime. The work of this paper is new and meaningful but it is similar to [loc. cit.].

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