Copolarity of isometric actions

Gorodski, Claudio; Olmos, Carlos; Tojeiro, Ruy

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03427-5

Copolarity of isometric actions
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by Claudio Gorodski, Carlos Olmos and Ruy Tojeiro

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), 1585-1608

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03427-5

Published electronically: September 22, 2003

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Abstract:

We introduce a new integral invariant for isometric actions of compact Lie groups, the copolarity. Roughly speaking, it measures how far from being polar the action is. We generalize some results about polar actions in this context. In particular, we develop some of the structural theory of copolarity $k$ representations, we classify the irreducible representations of copolarity one, and we relate the copolarity of an isometric action to the concept of variational completeness in the sense of Bott and Samelson.

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