Stability with respect to actions of real reductive Lie groups

DOI10.1007/S10231-017-0660-5MaRDI QIDQ1681835zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors L. Biliotti, Michela Zedda

Publication date 24 November 2017

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05027

zbMATH Keywords

geometric invariant theory gradient maps polystability reductive Lie group semi-stability stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20)

Abstract: We give a systematic treatment of the stability theory for action of a real reductive Lie group G on a topological space. More precisely, we introduce an abstract setting for actions of non-compact real reductive Lie groups on topological spaces that admit functions similar to the Kempf-Ness function. The point of this construction is that one can characterize stability, semi-stability and polystability of a point by numerical criteria, that is in terms of a function called maximal weight. We apply this setting to the actions of a real non-compact reductive Lie group G on a real compact submanifold M of a Kaehler manifold Z and to the action of G on measures of M.

Review text

The paper under review considers continuous actions of a non-compact real reductive Lie group \(G\) on a Hausdorff topological space \(\mathcal{M}\). The aim of the authors is to develop a geometric invariant theory for such actions, inspired by well-known results for actions on Kähler manifolds. More precisely, write \(G=K\cdot \exp(\mathfrak{p})\) where \(K\) is a maximal compact subgroup of \(G\). In this general setting, in Section 2 the authors define Kempf-Ness functions as maps \(\Psi: \mathcal{M} \times G\to \mathbb R\) satisfying certain conditions. Such a Kempf-Ness function gives rise to a map \(\mathfrak{F}: \mathcal{M}\to \mathfrak{p}^*\), called gradient map. In Section 5, given a point \(x\in \mathcal{M}\), the authors define when \(x\) is polystable (resp. stable, semi-stable, unstable) in terms of the intersection of the \(G\)-orbit of \(x\) with \(\mathfrak{F}^{-1}(0)\). A feature is that these various notions of stability can be detected by a numerical criteria (see Sections 5 and 6), using the maximal weight function introduced in Section 4. The end of the paper is devoted to examples: Section 7 addresses the classical gradient map for Kähler manifolds extending a construction of \textit{I. Mundet i Riera} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 362, No. 10, 5169--5187 (2010; Zbl 1201.53086)], Section 8 addresses the action on the space of measures on \(\mathcal{M}\), and Section 9 exemplifies explicitly the latter when \(\mathcal{M}\) is real projective space.

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