De Rham 2-cohomology of real flag manifolds

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2019.051MaRDI QIDQ2330822zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Viviana del Barco, Luiz A. B. San Martin

Publication date 23 October 2019

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07854

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zbMATH Keywords

cellular homologycharacteristic classesde Rham cohomologyflag manifoldSchubert cell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15)

Abstract: Let $mathbb{F}_{Theta}=G/P_{Theta}$ be a flag manifold associated to a non-compact real simple Lie group $G$ and the parabolic subgroup $\mathrm{\%}{P}_{Theta}$. This is a closed subgroup of $G$ determined by a subset $\mathrm{\%}Theta$ of simple restricted roots of $mathfrakg=Lie(G)$. This paper computes the second de Rham cohomology group of $mathbb{F}_{T}heta$. We prove that it zero in general, with some rare exceptions. When it is non-zero, we give a basis of $H^2(mathbb{F}_{T}heta,mathbbR)$ through the Weil construction of closed 2-forms as characteristic classes of principal fiber bundles. The starting point is the computation of the second homology group of $mathbb{F}_{Theta}$ with coefficients in a ring $R$.

Review text

In this paper the authors compute the second de Rham cohomology group of the real flag manifold \(\mathbb F_\Theta=G/P_\Theta\) associated to a non-compact real simple Lie group \(G\) and its parabolic subgroup \(P_\Theta\) (which is a closed subgroup determined by a set \(\Theta\) of simple restricted roots of the Lie algebra \(\mathrm{Lie}(G)\)). The vanishing of this cohomology group is an obstruction for the existence of a symplectic structure on the manifold, and motivated by this, the authors show that if \(\mathrm{Lie}(G)\) does not contain a root of rank \(2\), then \(H_{dR}^2(\mathbb F_\Theta;\mathbb R)=0\). If there are roots of rank \(2\) in \(\mathrm{Lie}(G)\), they detect a basis for \(H_{dR}^2(\mathbb F_\Theta;\mathbb R)\) by applying the Weil construction to the principal fiber bundle \(K\rightarrow\mathbb F_\Theta\) with structure group \(P_\Theta\cap K\), where \(K\) is a maximal compact subgroup of \(G\).

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