The structure of groups of multigerm equivalences

Authors Aasa Feragen, Andrew A. du Plessis

Publication date 10 October 2011

Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Symmetries, equivariance on manifolds (58K70)

Abstract: We study the structure of classical groups of equivalences for smooth multigerms

f c o l o n (N, S) o (P, y)

, and extend several known results for monogerm equivalences to the case of mulitgerms. In particular, we study the group

A

of source- and target diffeomorphism germs, and its stabilizer

A_{f}

. For monogerms

f

it is well-known that if

f

is finitely

A

-determined, then

A_{f}

has a maximal compact subgroup

M C (A_{f})

, unique up to conjugacy, and

A_{f} / M C (A_{f})

is contractible. We prove the same result for finitely

A

-determined multigerms

f

. Moreover, we show that for a ministable multigerm

f

, the maximal compact subgroup

M C (A_{f})

decomposes as a product of maximal compact subgroups

M C (A_{g_{i}})

for suitable representatives

g_{i}

of the monogerm components of

f

. We study a product decomposition of

M C (A_{f})

in terms of

M C (m a t h s c r R_{f})

and a group of target diffeomorphisms, and conjecture a decomposition theorem. Finally, we show that for a large class of maps, maximal compact subgroups are small and easy to compute.

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