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Toda frames, harmonic maps and extended Dynkin diagrams

Carberry, Emma
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Turner, Katharine
2017
Differential Geometry And Its Applications

We consider a natural subclass of harmonic maps from a surface into G/T, namely cyclic primitive maps. Here G is any simple real Lie group (not necessarily compact), T is a Cartan subgroup and both are chosen so that there is a Coxeter automorphism on G(C)/T-C which restricts to give a k-symmetric space structure on G/T. When G is compact, any Coxeter automorphism restricts to the real form. It was shown in [3] that cyclic primitive immersions into compact G/T correspond to solutions of the affine Toda field equations and all those of a genus one surface can be constructed by integrating a pair of commuting vector fields on a finite dimensional vector subspace of a Lie algebra. We generalise these results, removing the assumption that G is compact. The first major obstacle is that a Coxeter automorphism may not restrict to a non-compact real form. We characterise, in terms of extended Dynkin diagrams, those simple real Lie groups G and Cartan subgroups T such that G/T has a k-symmetric space structure induced from a Coxeter automorphism. A Coxeter automorphism preserves the real Lie algebra g if and only if any corresponding Cartan involution defines a permutation of the extended Dynkin diagram for g(C) = g circle times C; we show that every involution of the extended Dynkin diagram for a simple complex Lie algebra g(C) is induced by a Cartan involution of a real form of sf. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V.

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DOI
10.1016/j.difgeo.2017.03.011
Web of Science ID

WOS:000403863500011

Author(s)
Carberry, Emma
Turner, Katharine
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Elsevier

Published in
Differential Geometry And Its Applications
Volume

52

Start page

142

End page

157

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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July 10, 2017
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