Conformal geometry and spatially homogeneous cosmology
To each complex number is associated a representation of the conformal group on (spherical principal series). For three values , we construct a trilinear form on , which is invariant by . The trilinear form, first defined for in an open set of is extended meromorphically, with simple poles located in an explicit family of hyperplanes. For generic values of the parameters, we prove uniqueness of trilinear invariant forms.
The left-invariant sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions (rototranslations) of a plane SE(2) is studied. Local and global optimality of extremal trajectories is characterized. Lower and upper bounds on the first conjugate time are proved. The cut time is shown to be equal to the first Maxwell time corresponding to the group of discrete symmetries of the exponential mapping. Optimal synthesis on an open dense subset of the state space is described.
In this note we explain a way to associate to any number field some connected complex abelian Lie groups. Further, we study the case of non-totally real cubic number fields, and we see that they are intimately related with the Cousin groups (toroidal groups) of complex dimension and rank .
We prove that every connected locally compact Abelian topological group is sequentially connected, i.e., it cannot be the union of two proper disjoint sequentially closed subsets. This fact is then applied to the study of extensions of topological groups. We show, in particular, that if is a connected locally compact Abelian subgroup of a Hausdorff topological group and the quotient space is sequentially connected, then so is .
Let be a real form of a complex semisimple Lie group . Recall that Rossmann defined a Weyl group action on Lagrangian cycles supported on the conormal bundle of the flag variety of . We compute the signed average of the Weyl group action on the characteristic cycle of the standard sheaf associated to an open -orbit on the flag variety. This result is applied to find the value of the constant term in Harish-Chandra’s limit formula for the delta function at zero.