On the signature of biquotients

DOI10.1007/S00229-021-01344-0MaRDI QIDQ2084283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Goertsches, Maximilian Schmitt

Publication date 18 October 2022

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01092

zbMATH Keywords

biquotientcircle actioncompact Lie groupequal rankfixed pointhomogeneous spaceisotropy representationorientationsignatureweight

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Homology and homotopy of topological groups and related structures (57T99)

Abstract: We generalize Hirzebruch's computation of the signature of equal rank homogeneous spaces to a large class of biquotients.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a compact, connected Lie group. Let \(H\) be a closed, connected subgroup of \(G\times G\) with \(\mathrm{rk}\, H=\mathrm{rk}\, G\). Assume \(H\) acts freely on \(G\) by \((h_1, h_2)\cdot g=h_1gh_2^{-1}\). The orbit space of this action is denoted by \(G / / H\) and called a biquotient. Biquotients were originally considered in Riemannian geometry, but they also appear naturally in symplectic and Sasakian geometries. The signature of equal rank homogeneous spaces has been computed by \textit{F. Hirzebruch} and \textit{P. Slodowy} [Geom. Dedicata 35, No. 1--3, 309--343 (1990; Zbl 0712.57010)]. They obtained the result as a corollary of a more general result for compact oriented manifolds having a circle action with finite fixed point set. In this paper, the authors generalize the computation of Hirzebruch and Slodowy to a large class of equal rank biquotients. The proof uses the fact that any Lie subgroup of \(G\times G\) that commutes with \(H\) acts naturally on \(G//H\), yielding circle actions on many such biquotients. The main difference to the homogeneous setting is that in the biquotient case one has to keep track of orientations.

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