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Coisotropic and polar actions on complex Grassmannians

Author(s): Leonardo Biliotti; Anna Gori
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), 1731-1751.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C55, 57S15
Posted: December 22, 2004
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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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Leonardo Biliotti
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni per l'Architettura, Università di Firenze, Piazza Ghiberti 27, 50142 Firenze, Italy
Email: biliotti@math.unifi.it

Anna Gori
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni per l'Architettura, Università di Firenze, Piazza Ghiberti 27, 50142 Firenze, Italy
Email: gori@math.unifi.it

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03714-6
PII: S 0002-9947(04)03714-6
Received by editor(s): April 29, 2003
Posted: December 22, 2004
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society
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