LIFTING ISOTOPIES FROM ORBIT SPACES
LIFTING ISOTOPIES FROM ORBIT SPACES
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10.1016/0040-9383(75)90005-1
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1975-01-01
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BIERSTONE, E
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BIERSTONE, E
Conjecture (isotopy lifting property). If h: I x M/G+ M/G is a smooth isotopy, and f0 an equivariant diffeomorphism of M covering ho= h I (O) x M/G, then there is a smooth equivariant isotopy f: I x M* M of f. covering h.We establish this conjecture in the case that all orbits have the same dimension. Notice the conjecture implies that a smooth isotopy of an orbit space preserves orbit type, whereas in the (continuous) covering homotopy theorem of Palais [9] the preservation of orbit type is assumed. The lifting of smooth isotopies strengthens certain classification theorems for smooth group actions of a type considered by Bredon [5]. Though Bredon’s biaxial actions of classical groups have orbits of different dimensions, their orbit spaces have simple enough singularities that the lifting of isotopies can be established by direct calculation (§ 4). The orbit space of a linear representation of a compact Lie group has a natural semi-algebraic structure as the image of a finite set of generators for the algebra of invariant polynomials. This semi-algebraic structure is a local model for analysis on orbit spaces. In general, a semi-analytic set has a natural stratification analogous to Whitney’s stratification of analytic varieites [l6]; in the case of orbit spaces this stratification coincides with the stratification by orbit type (§ 2). The isotopy lifting problem is equivalent to a corresponding infinitesimal problem: lifting “smooth vector fields” on the orbit space (43) to smooth equivariant vector fields. When all orbits have the same dimension, the local model is the orbit space of a linear representation of a finite group. The space of smooth vector fields in the local model is generated over the ring of smooth functions by real analytic vector fields (07). Though we establish the lifting of real analytic vector fields (66) by complexifying the linear representation and its orbit space (0% reality is essential. It is well known that holomorphic differential operators on the orbit space of a complex representation of a finite group in general lift only to differential operators with meromorphic coefficients. The point is that the analytic stratification of the orbit space in the complex case is coarser than the stratification by orbit type.