The compatible-triple conjecture for real forms of holomorphic inner product Lie algebras

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Let (gC,gC)(\mathfrak{g}^{\mathbb{C}}, g^{\mathbb{C}}) be a holomorphic inner product space, with gC\mathfrak{g}^{\mathbb{C}} a complex Lie algebra. Let g⊂gC⊃g~\mathfrak{g}\subset \mathfrak{g}^{\mathbb{C}}\supset \tilde{\mathfrak{g}} be real forms that are also real slices, and assume that a compact real form u⊂gC\mathfrak{u}\subset \mathfrak{g}^{\mathbb{C}} exists. A triple of Lie algebras is compatible when its members have commuting conjugation maps in the sense of the paper. Compatible-triple conjecture. There exist automorphisms ϕ1,ϕ2,ϕ3∈Aut⁡(gC)∩O(n,C)\phi_1,\phi_2,\phi_3\in \operatorname{Aut}(\mathfrak{g}^{\mathbb{C}})\cap O(n,\mathbb{C}) such that

(ϕ1(g),ϕ2(g~),ϕ3(u))\bigl(\phi_1(\mathfrak{g}),\phi_2(\tilde{\mathfrak{g}}),\phi_3(\mathfrak{u})\bigr)

is a compatible triple of Lie algebras. The conjecture would extend the paper's Wick-rotation framework from Riemannian targets to non-Riemannian signatures; the source notes that it holds for abelian Lie algebras and in many examples among classical semisimple Lie algebras, but does not establish it in general.

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Christer Helleland, “Wick-rotations of pseudo-Riemannian Lie groups”, arXiv:1810.12037 (2020).

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