Variationally complete representations are polar

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06226-8MaRDI QIDQ2731943zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Antonio J. Di Scala, Carlos Olmos

Publication date 30 July 2001

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06226-8

zbMATH Keywords

compact Lie groupsrepresentations of Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Review text

An action of a compact subgroup \(G\) of the Lie group \(SO(n)\) on \({\mathbb R}^n\) is called variationally complete if any Jacobi field which is generated by variations of geodesics transversal to orbits and tangent to orbits at two points is the restriction of a Killing field induced by the \(G\)-action. An action of \(G\) is called polar if there is an affine subspace which meets all \(G\)-orbits orthogonally. The authors give a new proof to the recent theorem by Gorodski and Thorbergson stating that a variationally complete action of a compact group \(G \subset SO(n)\) is polar.

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