Examples of infinite dimensional isoparametric submanifolds
Examples of infinite dimensional isoparametric submanifolds
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无限维等参子流形的示例
DOI:
10.1007/bf02571240
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
G. Thorbergsson
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作者:
U. Pinkall;G. Thorbergsson
(PF) if the endpoint map Y is Fredholm and the restriction of Y to each normal disk bundle of finite radius r is proper. A PF submanifold M of a Hilbert space is called isoparametric if (i) the normal bundle is flat and with trivial holonomy, and (ii) if v is a parallel normal field on M, then the shape operators Av (x) and Av (y) are orthogonally equivalent for all x, yeM. Let G be a compact Lie group and let r be the trivial principal G-bundle over S 1. Then the loop group G= HI (S 1, G) of closed loops of Sobolev class HI is the gauge group of~ and it acts on the Hilbert space H~ of H~ by gauge transformations, where g is the Lie algebra of G. Terng shows in [Tel that the principal orbits are isoparametric. More precisely, it is shown in [PT] that the action of G is polar, ie, the action is isometric, proper, Fredholm and there is an affine subspace 2; in H~ that meets every orbit and is orthogonal to the orbit through x for every xe2;. It turns out that the principal orbits of a polar action are isoparametric. Polar actions of compact Lie groups on finite dimensional vector spaces were classified by Dadok IDa]. In infinite dimensions, no classification results are known. In this paper we generalize the examples of Terng in the following manner. Let M= G/K be a symmetric space. Let/s be the space ofH 1 paths H:[0, g]~ G with endpoints in K. Then the action of the gauge transformations of/~ on the Hilbert space H~([0, hi, g) is polar and the principal orbits are isoparametric. In Sect. 1 we review some basic material on connections and gauge transformations. In Sect. 2 we prove that the principal orbits of the action of/(are isoparametric and determine their principal curvatures and multiplicities.