Conjugacy limits of the diagonal Cartan subgroup in SL₃( R)

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0095-3MaRDI QIDQ2634851zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arielle Leitner

Publication date 10 February 2016

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4534

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan subgroupconjugacy limitnonstandard realsspecial linear group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Real and complex geometry (51M99)

Abstract: A limit group is the limit of a sequence of conjugates of the diagonal Cartan subgroup, C, of SL(3,R). We show C has 5 possible limit groups, up to conjugacy. Each limit group is determined by an equivalence class of nonstandard triangle, and we give a criterion for a sequence of conjugates of C to converge to each of the 5 limit groups.

Review text

Let \(C\) be the Cartan subgroup of diagonal matrices with positive entries in \(G = \mathrm{SL}_3(\mathbb R)\). This represents one of five conjugacy classes of subgroups isomorphic to \(\mathbb R^2\) in \(G\). The author shows that each of them contains the limit of some sequence \(P_nCP_n^{-1}\) of conjugates of \(C\). Conversely, given such a sequence, she determines whether it converges or not, and which of the five types is represented by the limit. To this end she looks at the triangle \(T \subseteq \mathbb R P^2\) in the projective plane fixed by \(C\) (so \(P_nCP_n^{-1}\) fixes \(P_nT\)). The resulting sequence of image triangles is considered as a single triangle in the projective plane over the nonstandard reals. By looking at the side lengths, the angles and the altitudes of this triangle she derives criteria to answer the above question. Reviewer's remark: The clarity of exposition could have been improved.

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