Algebraic characterization of isometries of the complex and the quaternionic hyperbolic planes

DOI10.1007/S10711-011-9599-7MaRDI QIDQ2429488zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cao Wensheng, Krishnendu Gongopadhyay

Publication date 27 April 2012

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1005

zbMATH Keywords

\(z\)-classisometriesquaternionic hyperbolic space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of logic to group theory (20A15) Functions of hypercomplex variables and generalized variables (30G35) Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Geometry of classical groups (51N30)

Abstract: It is of interest to characterize algebraically the dynamical types of isometries of the complex and quaternionic hyperbolic planes. In the complex case, such a characterization is known from the work of Giraud-Goldman. In this paper, we offer an algebraic characterization of the isometries of the two-dimensional quaternionic hyperbolic space. Our result restricts to the complex case and provides another characterization of the isometries of the complex hyperbolic plane which is different from the characterization due to Giraud-Goldman. Two elements in a group G are said to be in the same z-class if their centralizers are conjugate in G. The $z$-classes provide a finite partition of the isometry group. In this paper we describe the centralizers of the isometries, and determine the z-classes.

Review text

This paper is concerned with isometries of the quaternionic hyperbolic plane \(H\), which correspond to matrices in the linear group \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\). The embedding of \(H\) into \(2 \times 2\) complex matrices provides an embedding of \(\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)\) into \(\mathrm{GL}(6,C)\). The authors give a complete classification of the dynamics of isometries by looking at the characteristic polynomial of the associated \(6 \times 6\) complex matrices and introducing a discriminant function. They also give a classification, following [\textit{R. S. Kulkarni}, J. Ramanujan Math. Soc. 22 No. 1, 35--56 (2007; Zbl 1181.22022)], based on the conjugacy types of the centralizers.

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