Spheres in Hermitian symmetric spaces and flag manifolds

DOI10.1023/A:1004913505961MaRDI QIDQ679357zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cristián U. Sánchez, A. L. Cali, José L. Moreschi

Publication date 2 June 1998

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1004913505961

zbMATH Keywords

2-numbercompact irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaceEuler-Poincaré characteristicflag manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Review text

A new property of compact irreducible Hermitian symmetric spaces \(M\) is given here, by proving the following result. If \(M=G/K\), where \(G\) is a compact simply connected simple Lie group, \(T\) a maximal torus of \(G\) and \(F(T,M) =\{E_1, \dots, E_m\}\) is the fixed point set of \(T\) on \(M\), then for each pair \(E_i\), \(E_j\) there is a 2-dimensional sphere \(N_{ij} \subset M\) such that \(E_i\) and \(E_j\) are antipodal points of \(N_{ij}\). \textit{B.-Y. Chen} and \textit{T. Nagano} introduced in [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 308, 273-297 (1988; Zbl 0656.53049)] the 2-number \(\#_2\). The holomorphic version \(\#_2^H\) of \(\#_2\) is defined here and for the above space \(M\) it is shown that \(\#_2^H\) is equal to \(\#_2\) and the Euler-Poincaré characteristic.

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