Rank three geometry and positive curvature

DOI10.4310/CAG.2016.V24.N3.A3MaRDI QIDQ303534zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Karsten Grove, Gudlaugur Thorbergsson, Fuquan Fang

Publication date 22 August 2016

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

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

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)

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.

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