Journal of Symplectic Geometry

Volume 18 (2020)

Number 3

Symplectic and Kähler structures on biquotients

Pages: 791 – 813

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/JSG.2020.v18.n3.a6

Authors

Oliver Goertsches (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)

Panagiotis Konstantis (Universität zu Köln, Germany)

Leopold Zoller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)

Abstract

We construct symplectic structures on roughly half of all equal rank biquotients of the form $G //T$, where $G$ is a compact simple Lie group and $T$ a torus, and investigate Hamiltonian Lie group actions on them. For the Eschenburg flag, this action has similar properties as Tolman’s and Woodward’s examples of Hamiltonian non-Kähler actions. In addition to the previously known Kähler structure on the Eschenburg flag, we find another Kähler structure on a biquotient $\operatorname{SU}(4) // T^3$.

Received 8 May 2019

Accepted 16 July 2019

Published 30 July 2020