STEEPEST DESCENT ON REAL FLAG MANIFOLDS

DOI10.1112/S0024609306018376zbMATH Open1090.53049arXivmath/0208018MaRDI QIDQ5289919FDOQ5289919

Authors: Augustin-Liviu Mare, J.-H. Eschenburg 

Publication date: 19 April 2006

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

Abstract: Real flag manifolds are the isotropy orbits of noncompact symmetric spaces $G/K$. Any such manifold $M$ enjoys two very peculiar geometric properties: It carries a transitive action of the (noncompact) Lie group $G$, and it is embedded in euclidean space as a taut submanifold. The aim of the paper is to link these two properties by showing that the gradient flow of any height function is a one-parameter subgroup of $G$, where the gradient is defined with respect to a suitable homogeneous metric $s$ on $M$; this generalizes the Kaehler metric on adjoint orbits (the so-called complex flag manifolds).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0208018

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zbMATH Keywords

height functionreal flag manifoldssteepest descendentsymmetric spaces of non compact type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

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