Actions on positively curved manifolds and boundary in the orbit space

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2024.109557MaRDI QIDQ6119805zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Claudio Gorodski, Andreas Kollross, Burkhard Wilking

Publication date 25 March 2024

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00513

zbMATH Keywords

Alexandrov boundaryisometric actionorbit spacepositive curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

Abstract: We study isometric actions of compact Lie groups on complete orientable positively curved $n$-manifolds whose orbit spaces have non-empty boundary in the sense of Alexandrov geometry. In particular, we classify quotients of the unit sphere with non-empty boundary. We deduce from this the list of representations of simple Lie groups that admit non-trivial reductions. As a tool of special interest, we introduce a new geometric invariant of a compact symmetric space, namely, the minimal number of points in a "spanning set" of the space.

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