Gasqui / Goldschmidt Radon Transforms and the Rigidity of the Grassmannians

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E-Book, Englisch, Band 156, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Annals of Mathematics Studies

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gasqui, Jacques

Goldschmidt, Hubert

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Differentialgeometrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction ix
CHAPTER I. Symmetric spaces and Einstein manifolds
1.Riemannian manifolds 1
2.Einstein manifolds 15
3.Symmetric spaces 19
4.Complex manifolds 27

CHAPTER II. Radon transforms on symmetric spaces
1.Outline 32
2.Homogeneous vector bundles and harmonic analysis 32
3.The Guillemin and zero-energy conditions 36
4.Radon transforms 41
5.Radon transforms and harmonic analysis 50
6.Lie algebras 58
7.Irreducible symmetric spaces 59
8.Criteria for the rigidity of an irreducible symmetric space 68

CHAPTER III. Symmetric spaces of rank one
1.Flat tori 75
2.The projective spaces 83
3.The real projective space 89
4.The complex projective space 94
5.The rigidity of the complex projective space 104
6.The other projective spaces 112

CHAPTER IV. The real Grassmannians
1.The real Grassmannians 114
2.The Guillemin condition on the real Grassmannians 126

CHAPTER V. The Complex Quadradic
1.Outline 134
2.The complex quadric viewed as a symmetric space 134
3.The complex quadric viewed as a complex hypersurface 138
4.Local Kähler geometry of the complex quadric 146
5.The complex quadric and the real Grassmannians 152
6.Totally geodesic surfaces and the infinitesimal orbit of the curvature 159
7.Multiplicities 170
8.Vanishing results for symmetric forms 185
9.The complex quadric of dimension two 190

CHAPTER VI. The rigidity of the complex quadric
1.Outline 193
2.Total geodesic at tori of the complex quadric 194
3.Symmetric forms on the complex quadric 199
4.Computing integrals of symmetric forms 204
5.Computing integrals of odd symmetric forms 209
6.Bounds for the dimensions of spaces of symmetric forms 218
7.The complex quadric of dimension three 223
8.The rigidity of the complex quadric 229
9.Other proofs of the infinitesimal rigidity of the quadric 232
10.The complex quadric of dimension four 234
11.Forms of degree one 237

CHAPTER VII. The rigidity of the real Grassmannians
1.The rigidity of the real Grassmannians 244
2.The real Grassmannians 249

CHAPTER VIII. The complex Grassmannians
1.Outline 257
2.The complex Grassmannians 258
3.Highest weights of irreducible modules associated with the complex Grassmannians 270
4.Functions and forms on the complex Grassmannians 274
5.The complex Grassmannians of rank two 282
6.The Guillemin condition on the complex Grassmannians 287
7.Integrals of forms on the complex Grassmannians 293
8.Relations among forms on the complex Grassmannians 300
9.The complex Grassmannians 303

CHAPTER IX. The rigidity of the complex Grassmannians
1.The rigidity of the complex Grassmannians 308
2.On the rigidity of the complex Grassmannians 313
3.The rigidity of the quaternionic Grassmannians 323

CHAPTER X. Products of symmetric spaces
1.Guillemin rigidity and products of symmetric spaces 329
2.Conformally at symmetric spaces 334
3.Infinitesimal rigidity of products of symmetric spaces 338
4.The infinitesimal rigidity of G 340

References 357
Index 363

Über Autor(innen)

Jacques Gasqui is Professor of Mathematics at Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble I. Hubert Goldschmidt is Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University and Professeur des Universités in France.