The index of symmetry of a flag manifold

DOI10.4171/RMI/874MaRDI QIDQ2633991zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabio Podestà

Publication date 5 February 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4038

zbMATH Keywords

flag manifoldhomogeneous manifoldindex of symmetrysymmetric spacetotally geodesic submanifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: We study the index of symmetry of a compact generalized flag manifold M=G/H endowed with an invariant Kaehler structure. When the group G is simple we show that the leaves of symmetry are irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces and we estimate their dimension.

Review text

The index of symmetry \(\iota_s(M)\) of a homogeneous Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) was defined in previous works by other authors as the dimension of the distribution of symmetry \({\mathcal{D}}\). It is equal to \(\dim(M)\) for symmetric spaces, hence the coindex of symmetry (\(\dim(M)-\iota_s(M)\)) gives a characterization of the ``distance of \(M\) from being symmetric. The integral submanifolds of the integrable distribution \({\mathcal{D}}\) are symmetric spaces embedded in \(M\) as totally geodesic submanifolds. The present paper is dealing with compact generalized flag manifolds, which are all compact Kähler manifolds admitting transitive semisimple compact Lie groups of biholomorphic isometries. Considering the \(G\)-invariant Kähler structure \((g,J)\) and assuming that \(G=I_0(M)\) is simple, it is shown that the leaves of symmetry are complex, totally geodesic submanifolds which are irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces. Further, there exist a compact Lie subgroup \(H'\supset H\), depending only on the complex structure \(J\) (and not on the metric \(g\)) such that the fibers of the fibration \(G/H\rightarrow G/H'\) coincide with the leaves of symmetry. Also an estimate for the coindex of symmetry is proved, which is a refinement of the general result from the previous works.

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