Homogeneous Einstein metrics on Stiefel manifolds associated to flag manifolds with two isotropy summands

Abstract: We study invariant Einstein metrics on the Stiefel manifold

V_{k} m a t h b b R^{n} c o n g m a t h r m S O (n) / m a t h r m S O (n - k)

of all orthonormal

k

-frames in

m a t h b b R^{n}

. The isotropy representation of this homogeneous space contains equivalent summands, so a complete description of

G

-invariant metrics is not easy. In this paper we view the manifold

V_{2 p} m a t h b b R^{n}

as total space over a classical generalized flag manifolds with two isotropy summands and prove for

2 l e p l e f r a c 25 n - 1

it admits at least four invariant Einstein metrics determined by

m a t h r m A d (m a t h r m U (p) i m e s m a t h r m S O (n - 2 p))

-invariant scalar products. Two of the metrics are Jensen's metrics and the other two are new Einstein metrics.

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