A remark on calibrations and Lie groups

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2023.V19.N6.A2MaRDI QIDQ6188617zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nigel Hitchin

Publication date 7 February 2024

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06331

zbMATH Keywords

bi-invariant formcalibrationLie groupthree-dimensional subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20) General properties and structure of other Lie groups (22E20) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38)

Abstract: We use the notion of the principal three-dimensional subgroup of a simple Lie group to identify certain special subspaces of the Lie algebra and address the question of whether these are calibrated for invariant forms on the group.

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