Explicit Pseudo-K\"ahler Metrics on Flag Manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2022.101968MaRDI QIDQ6345342arXivFDO

Authors Thomas Mason, François Ziegler

Publication date 17 July 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Homogeneous complex manifolds (32M10) Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: The coadjoint orbits of compact Lie groups each carry a canonical (positive definite) K"ahler structure, famously used to realize the group's irreducible representations in holomorphic sections of appropriate line bundles (Borel-Weil theorem). Less studied are the (indefinite) invariant *pseudo*-K"ahler structures they also admit, which can be used to realize the same representations in higher cohomology of the sections (Bott's theorem). Using ``eigenflag embeddings, we give a very explicit description of these metrics in the case of the unitary group. As a byproduct we show that $U_n/(U_{n_1}imescdotsimes{U}_{n_k})$ has exactly $k!$ invariant complex structures, a count which seems to have hitherto escaped attention.

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