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Journal Article
A Classification of Hyperpolar and Cohomogeneity One Actions
Andreas Kollross
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Vol. 354, No. 2 (Feb., 2002), pp. 571-612
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by: American Mathematical Society
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2693761
Page Count: 42
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Topics: Lie groups, Isotropy, Mathematical theorems, Automorphisms, Adjoints, Symmetry, Algebraic conjugates, Subalgebras, Normal spaces
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Abstract
An isometric action of a compact Lie group on a Riemannian manifold is called hyperpolar if there exists a closed, connected submanifold that is flat in the induced metric and meets all orbits orthogonally. In this article, a classification of hyperpolar actions on the irreducible Riemannian symmetric spaces of compact type is given. Since on these symmetric spaces actions of cohomogeneity one are hyperpolar, i.e. normal geodesics are closed, we obtain a classification of the homogeneous hypersurfaces in these spaces by computing the cohomogeneity for all hyperpolar actions. This result implies a classification of the cohomogeneity one actions on compact strongly isotropy irreducible homogeneous spaces.
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