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On geometry of symplectic involutions

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Let VV be a 2n2n-dimensional vector space over a field FF and Ω\Omega be a non-degenerate symplectic form on VV. Denote by Hk(Ω){\mathfrak H}_{k}(\Omega) the set of all 2k2k-dimensional subspaces UVU\subset V such that the restriction ΩU\Omega|_{U} is non-degenerate. Our main result (Theorem 1) says that if n2kn\ne 2k and max(k,nk)5\max(k,n-k)\ge 5 then any bijective transformation of Hk(Ω){\mathfrak H}_{k}(\Omega) preserving the class of base subsets is induced by a semi-simplectic automorphism of VV. For the case when n2kn\ne 2k this fails, but we have a weak version of this result (Theorem 2). If the characteristic of FF is not equal to 2 then there is a one-to-one correspondence between elements of Hk(Ω){\mathfrak H}_{k}(\Omega) and symplectic (2k,2n2k)(2k,2n-2k)-involutions and Theorem 1 can be formulated as follows: for the case when n2kn\ne 2k and max(k,nk)5\max(k,n-k)\ge 5 any commutativity preserving bijective transformation of the set of symplectic (2k,2n2k)(2k,2n-2k)-involutions can be extended to an automorphism of the symplectic group.

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@article{arxiv.math/0504410,
  title  = {On geometry of symplectic involutions},
  author = {Mark Pankov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0504410},
  year   = {2007}
}