The manifold of minimal tripotents in classical Cartan factors

We prove that the manifold of minimal tripotents in classical Cartan factors is a fibre space with a symmetric Kaehler manifold as base space and U(1) as typical fibre. We study the symmetries, the geodesics and the sectional curvature of the base manifold. This extends to the infinite-dimensional case known results in the finite dimensional setting.


J. M. Isidro <jmisidro@zmat.usc.es>