Coisotropic and polar actions on complex Grassmannians

Biliotti, Leonardo; Gori, Anna

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03714-6

Coisotropic and polar actions on complex Grassmannians
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Abstract:

The main result of the paper is the complete classification of the compact connected Lie groups acting coisotropically on complex Grassmannians. This is used to determine the polar actions on the same manifolds.

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