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Real GIT with applications to compatible representations and Wick-rotations

Mathematical Physics 2019-05-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

Motivated by Wick-rotations of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, we study real geometric invariant theory (GIT) and compatible representations. We extend some of the results from earlier works \cite{W2,W1}, in particular, we give some sufficient as well as necessary conditions for when pseudo-Riemannian manifolds are Wick-rotatable to other signatures. For arbitrary signatures, we consider a Wick-rotatable pseudo-Riemannian manifold with closed O(p,q)O(p,q)-orbits, and thus generalise the existence condition found in \cite{W1}. Using these existence conditions we also derive an invariance theorem for Wick-rotations of arbitrary signatures.

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@article{arxiv.1807.05879,
  title  = {Real GIT with applications to compatible representations and Wick-rotations},
  author = {Christer Helleland and Sigbjorn Hervik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05879},
  year   = {2019}
}

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30 pages, to appear in J. Geom. Phys

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