Symmetric spaces of higher rank do not admit differentiable compactifications

DOI10.1007/S00208-009-0464-ZMaRDI QIDQ976781zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benoît Kloeckner

Publication date 16 June 2010

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0814

zbMATH Keywords

compactificationsymmetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.) (54D35)

Abstract: Any nonpositively curved symmetric space admits a topological compactification, namely the Hadamard compactification. For rank one spaces, this topological compactification can be endowed with a differentiable structure such that the action of the isometry group is differentiable. Moreover, the restriction of the action on the boundary leads to a flat model for some geometry (conformal, CR or quaternionic CR depending of the space). One can ask whether such a differentiable compactification exists for higher rank spaces, hopefully leading to some knew geometry to explore. In this paper we answer negatively.

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