{ "id": "0801.0574", "version": "v1", "published": "2008-01-03T18:07:11.000Z", "updated": "2008-01-03T18:07:11.000Z", "title": "Polar orthogonal representations of real reductive algebraic groups", "authors": [ "Laura Geatti", "Claudio Gorodski" ], "comment": "23 pages, Latex", "categories": [ "math.RT", "math.DG" ], "abstract": "We prove that a polar orthogonal representation of a real reductive algebraic group has the same closed orbits as the isotropy representation of a pseudo-Riemannian symmetric space. We also develop a partial structural theory of polar orthogonal representations of real reductive algebraic groups which slightly generalizes some results of the structural theory of real reductive Lie algebras.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2008-01-03T18:07:11.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "22E45", "15A72", "53C12" ], "keywords": [ "real reductive algebraic group", "polar orthogonal representation", "real reductive lie algebras", "pseudo-riemannian symmetric space", "partial structural theory" ], "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 23, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0801.0574G" } } }