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Stratifications with respect to actions of real reductive groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2008

Peter Heinzner
Affiliation:
Fakultät für Mathematik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany (email: heinzner@cplx.rub.de, henrik.stoetzel@rub.de)
Gerald W. Schwarz
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University, PO Box 549110, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA (email: schwarz@brandeis.edu)
Henrik Stötzel
Affiliation:
Fakultät für Mathematik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany (email: heinzner@cplx.rub.de, henrik.stoetzel@rub.de)
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Abstract

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We study the action of a real reductive group G on a real submanifold X of a Kähler manifold Z. We suppose that the action of G extends holomorphically to an action of the complexified group and that with respect to a compatible maximal compact subgroup U of the action on Z is Hamiltonian. There is a corresponding gradient map where is a Cartan decomposition of . We obtain a Morse-like function on X. Associated with critical points of are various sets of semistable points which we study in great detail. In particular, we have G-stable submanifolds Sβ of X which are called pre-strata. In cases where is proper, the pre-strata form a decomposition of X and in cases where X is compact they are the strata of a Morse-type stratification of X. Our results are generalizations of results of Kirwan obtained in the case where and X=Z is compact.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation Compositio Mathematica 2008

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The first author is partially supported by the Sonderforschungsbereich SFB/TR12 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The second author is partially supported by NSA Grant H98230-06-1-0023. The third author is supported by the Sonderforschungsbereich SFB/TR12 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.