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Reductive homogeneous spaces associated with real forms. A gauge-theoretical generalisation

Differential Geometry 2025-09-23 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a connected complex Lie group. A real form of GG is a closed subgroup HGH\subset G whose Lie algebra h\mathfrak{h} is a real form of the Lie algebra g\mathfrak{g} of GG. A pair (G,H)(G,H) of this type is reductive, and the corresponding quotient G/HG/H is a reductive homogeneous space whose canonical connection is torsion free. Regarded as a principal HH-bundle over G/HG/H, GG comes with tensorial 1-form α\alpha of type Ad\mathrm{Ad} and a natural left invariant connection AA. This remark suggests the following gauge theoretical generalisation of the class of reductive pairs of the form (G,H)(G,H) as above: Let HH be an arbitrary Lie group. A triple (PπM,α,A)(P\stackrel{\pi}{\to}M,\alpha,A), where PπMP\stackrel{\pi}{\to}M is a principal HH-bundle, α\alpha a tensorial 1-form of type Ad\mathrm{Ad} on PP and AA a connection on PP will be called admissible if the induced linear maps AyhA_y\to \mathfrak{h}, yPy\in P, are all isomorphisms. If this is the case one obtains a canonical linear connection Aα\nabla^\alpha_A on MM and a canonical almost complex structure JAαJ^\alpha_A on PP which, by a result of R. Zentner, is integrable if an only if the pair (α,A)(\alpha,A) satisfies a gauge invariant first order differential system. A triple (PπM,α,A)(P\stackrel{\pi}{\to}M,\alpha,A) as above will be called integrable if this integrability condition is satisfied. Any integrable triple (PπM,α,A)(P\stackrel{\pi}{\to}M,\alpha,A) with MM simply connected and Aα\nabla^\alpha_A complete can be identified with the triple associated with a real form of a complex Lie group. In this article we explain the strategy of the proof of this classification result and we prove in detail a theorem which plays an important role in this strategy and is of independent interest. In the last section we introduce the moduli spaces of integrable pairs on a principal bundle, and we give explicit examples.

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@article{arxiv.2509.17166,
  title  = {Reductive homogeneous spaces associated with real forms. A gauge-theoretical generalisation},
  author = {Nicolas Al Choueiry and Andrei Teleman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.17166},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure

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