The gap phenomenon in parabolic geometries

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2014-0072zbMATH Open1359.58019arXiv1303.1307OpenAlexW3099337013MaRDI QIDQ507465FDOQ507465

Boris Kruglikov, Dennis The

Publication date: 6 February 2017

Published in: Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The infinitesimal symmetry algebra of any Cartan geometry has maximum dimension realized by the flat model, but often this dimension drops significantly when considering non-flat geometries, so a gap phenomenon arises. For general (regular, normal) parabolic geometries of type (G,P), we use Tanaka theory to derive a universal upper bound on the submaximal symmetry dimension. We use Kostant's version of the Bott-Borel-Weil theorem to show that this bound is in fact sharp in almost all complex and split-real cases by exhibiting (abstract) models. We explicitly compute all submaximal symmetry dimensions when G is any complex or split-real simple Lie group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1307

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zbMATH Keywords

parabolic geometryharmonic curvaturesubmaximal symmetryTanaka theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graded Lie (super)algebras (17B70) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Local differential geometry (53B99)

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