Compact symmetric spaces, triangular factorization, and Cayley coordinates

DOI10.2140/PJM.2011.253.57MaRDI QIDQ657364zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Derek Habermas

Publication date 16 January 2012

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2251, http://msp.berkeley.edu/pjm/2011/253-1/p04.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

Bruhat decompositionCartan embeddingcompact symmetric spaceEvens-Lu Poisson structuremoment map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces (43A85) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: Let U/K represent a connected, compact symmetric space, where theta is an involution of U that fixes K, phi: U/K to U is the geodesic Cartan embedding, and G is the complexification of U. We investigate the intersection of phi(U/K) with the Bruhat decomposition of G corresponding to a theta-stable triangular, or LDU, factorization of the Lie algebra of G. When g in phi(U/K) is generic, the corresponding factorization g=ld(g)u is unique, where l in N^-, d(g) in H, and u in N^+. In this paper we present an explicit formula for d in Cayley coordinates, compute it in several types of symmetric spaces, and use it to identify representatives of the connected components of the generic part of phi(U/K). This formula calculates a moment map for a torus action on the highest dimensional symplectic leaves of the Evens-Lu Poisson structure on U/K.

Review text

This article studies Cartan embeddings of Riemannian symmetric spaces of compact type. Let \(U/K\) be such a symmetric space and let \(\Phi:U/K\hookrightarrow U\) be the Cartan embedding. Let furthermore \(U_{\mathbb{C}}=\prod N^-wHN^+\) with \(N^{\pm}\) nilpotent and \(H\) diagonal be the (refined) Bruhat decomposition of the complexification \(U_{\mathbb{C}}\) of \(U\). This decomposition is unique. Hence, via the embedding \(U/K\hookrightarrow U\hookrightarrow U_{\mathbb{C}}\), each element \(uK\in U/K\) uniquely defines elements \(n^{\pm}(uK)\in N^{\pm}\), \(w(uK)\in W\) and \(d(uK)\in H\). The author calculates \(d(uK)\) for elements \(uK\in U/K\) whose embedding lies in the big cell \(N^-HN^+\) of \(U_{\mathbb{C}}\), giving explicit formulas for the examples \(AIII\), \(DIII\), \(CI\), \(CII\) and \(BDI\). Quoting previous work of S.~Evens and J.-H.~Lu (2001), P.~Foth and M.~Otto (2006) and A.~Caine (2008) he states, that his formulas calculate the moment map for the torus action on the highest-dimensional symplectic leaves of the Evens-Lu Poisson structure on \(U/K\).

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