The length and depth of compact Lie groups

DOI10.1007/S00209-019-02324-7MaRDI QIDQ2305692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Timothy C. Burness, Martin W. Liebeck, Aner Shalev

Publication date 11 March 2020

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09893

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact groups (22C05) General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a connected Lie group. An unrefinable chain of $G$ is a chain of subgroups $G=G_0>G_1>cdots>G_t=1$, where each $G_i$ is a maximal connected subgroup of $G_{i-1}$. In this paper, we introduce the notion of the length (respectively, depth) of $G$, defined as the maximal (respectively, minimal) length of such a chain, and we establish several new results for compact groups. In particular, we compute the exact length and depth of every compact simple Lie group, and draw conclusions for arbitrary connected compact Lie groups $G$. We obtain best possible bounds on the length of $G$ in terms of its dimension, and characterize the connected compact Lie groups that have equal length and depth. The latter result generalizes a well known theorem of Iwasawa for finite groups. More generally, we establish a best possible upper bound on $dim{G}^{\prime }$ in terms of the chain difference of $G$, which is its length minus its depth.

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