Transformations of Grassmannians and automorphisms of classical groups

DOI10.1007/S00022-002-1616-4MaRDI QIDQ1396038zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Pankov

Publication date 2002

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-002-1616-4

zbMATH Keywords

collineationfundamental theorem of projective spacesGrassmannian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations) (51M35)

Review text

The following generalization of the fundamental theorem of projective spaces [see, e.g., \textit{H. Lüneburg}, Arch. Math. {17}, 206--209 (1966; Zbl 0141.18001) or \textit{C. A. Faure} and \textit{A. Frölicher}, Geom. Dedicata {53}, 237--262 (1994; Zbl 0826.51002)] to Grassmannians \({G}_k(V)\) is due to \textit{W. L. Chow} [Ann. Math. (2) 50, 32--67 (1949; Zbl 0040.22901)]: call \(k-\dim S \cap T\) the distance of \(S,T \in {G}_k(V)\). If \(1 < k < n{-}1\), then any distance preserving map of \({G}_k(V)\) is given by a collineation or a sesqui-linear form. The author proves a theorem of a similar nature: given a basis \(B\) of \(V\), there are \(n\choose k\) subspaces of dimension \(k\) which are spanned by vectors of \(B\). These subspaces form a basis set \({\mathcal B}_k\) of the Grassmannian \({G}_k(V)\). If a bijection and its inverse map are from \({\mathcal B}_k\) into itself, then Chow's conclusion holds. This is applied to transformations of the set of \((k,n{-}k)\)-involutions of \(V\) which preserve commutativity.

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