Symmetric spaces with dissecting involutions

DOI10.1007/S00031-020-09595-ZarXiv1907.07740MaRDI QIDQ6322283FDOQ6322283

Authors: Karl-Hermann Neeb, Gestur Ólafsson 

Publication date: 17 July 2019

Abstract: An involutive diffeomorphism $sigma$ of a connected smooth manifold $M$ is called dissecting if the complement of its fixed point set is not connected. Dissecting involutions on a complete Riemannian manifold are closely related to constructive quantum field theory through the work of Dimock and Jaffe/Ritter on the construction of reflection positive Hilbert spaces. In this article we classify all pairs $(M,sigma)$, where $M$ is an irreducible symmetric space, not necessarily Riemannian, and $sigma$ is a dissecting involutive automorphism. In particular, we show that the only irreducible $1$-connected Riemannian symmetric spaces are $S^n$ and $H^n$ with dissecting isometric involutions whose fixed point spaces are $S^{n-1}$ and $H^{n-1}$, respectively.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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