Resolution of smooth group actions

zbMATH Open1218.58009arXiv1012.5765MaRDI QIDQ2995288FDOQ2995288

Richard Melrose, Pierre Albin

Publication date: 20 April 2011

Abstract: A refined form of the `Folk Theorem' that a smooth action by a compact Lie group can be (canonically) resolved, by iterated blow up, to have unique isotropy type is proved in the context of manifolds with corners. This procedure is shown to capture the simultaneous resolution of all isotropy types in a `resolution structure' consisting of equivariant iterated fibrations of the boundary faces. This structure projects to give a similar resolution structure for the quotient. In particular these results apply to give a canonical resolution of the radial compactification, to a ball, of any finite dimensional representation of a compact Lie group; such resolutions of the normal action of the isotropy groups appear in the boundary fibers in the general case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5765

zbMATH Keywords

resolutiongroup actionsmanifolds with cornersequivariant maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Group actions and symmetry properties (58D19)

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