Variationally complete representations are polar
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Abstract:
A recent result of C. Gorodski and G. Thorbergsson, involving classification, asserts that a variationally complete representation is polar. The aim of this paper is to give a conceptual and very short proof of this fact, which is the converse of a result of Conlon.References
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Additional Information
- Antonio J. Di Scala
- Affiliation: Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
- MR Author ID: 670775
- Email: discala@mate.uncor.edu
- Carlos Olmos
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Ciudad Universitaria, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
- MR Author ID: 270951
- Email: olmos@mate.uncor.edu
- Received by editor(s): November 9, 2000
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 6, 2000
- Published electronically: May 30, 2001
- Additional Notes: This research was supported by Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CONICET, CONICOR, Secyt-UNC, ANPCyT and CIEM
- Communicated by: Wolfgang Ziller
- © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 3445-3446
- MSC (1991): Primary 53C40; Secondary 53C35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06226-8
- MathSciNet review: 1845024