Rank three geometry and positive curvature

DOI10.4310/CAG.2016.V24.N3.A3zbMATH Open1350.53067arXiv1607.04134MaRDI QIDQ303534FDOQ303534

Authors: Karsten Grove, Gudlaugur Thorbergsson, Fuquan Fang 

Publication date: 22 August 2016

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An axiomatic characterization of buildings of type $C{C}_3$ due to Tits is used to prove that any cohomogeneity two polar action of type $C{C}_3$ on a positively curved simply connected manifold is equivariantly diffeomorphic to a polar action on a rank one symmetric space. This includes two actions on the Cayley plane whose associated $C{C}_3$ type geometry is not covered by a building.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04134

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zbMATH Keywords

buildingpolar actionsymmetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Homogeneous spaces (22F30)

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