A geometric proof of the Karpelevich-Mostow theorem

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDP036MaRDI QIDQ3395235zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio J. Di Scala, Carlos Olmos

Publication date 24 August 2009

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702201

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan decompositionsRiemannian symmetric spacetotally geodesic orbit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: In this paper we give a geometric proof of the Karpelevich's theorem that asserts that a semisimple Lie subgroup of isometries, of a symmetric space of non compact type, has a totally geodesic orbit. In fact, this is equivalent to a well-known result of Mostow about existence of compatible Cartan decompositions.

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