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Toda frames, harmonic maps and extended Dynkin diagrams

Differential Geometry 2011-11-18 v1 Representation Theory Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We prove that all immersions of a genus one surface into G/T possessing a Toda frame can be constructed by integrating a pair of commuting vector fields on a finite dimensional Lie algebra. Here G is any simple real Lie group (not necessarily compact), T is a Cartan subgroup and the k-symmetric space structure on G/T is induced from the Coxeter automorphism. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a Toda frame for a harmonic map into G/T and describe those G/T to which the theory applies in terms of involutions of extended Dynkin diagrams.

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@article{arxiv.1111.4028,
  title  = {Toda frames, harmonic maps and extended Dynkin diagrams},
  author = {Emma Carberry and Katharine Turner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4028},
  year   = {2011}
}
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