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Let F Θ = G ∕ P Θ be a generalized flag manifold, where G is a real non-compact semi-simple Lie group and P Θ a parabolic subgroup. A classical result says the Schubert cells, which are the closure of the Bruhat cells, endow F Θ with a cellular CW structure. In this paper we exhibit explicit parametrizations of the Schubert cells by closed balls (cubes) in R n and use them to compute the boundary operator ∂ for the cellular homology. We recover the result obtained by Kocherlakota [1995], in the setting of Morse Homology, that the coefficients of ∂ are 0 or ± 2 (so that Z 2 -homology is freely generated by the cells). In particular, the formula given here is more refined in the sense that the ambiguity of signals in the Morse–Witten complex is solved.

Gasparim, Grama and San Martin (2016) showed that height functions give adjoint orbits of semisimple Lie algebras the structure of symplectic Lefschetz fibrations (superpotential of the LG model in the language of mirror symmetry). We describe how to extend the superpotential to compactifications. Our results explore the geometry of the adjoint orbit from 2 points of view: algebraic geometry and Lie theory.

We study the isotropy representation of real flag manifolds associated to simple Lie algebras that are split real forms of complex simple Lie algebras. For each Dynkin diagram the invariant irreducible subspaces for the compact part of the isotropy subgroup are described. Contrary to the complex flag manifolds the decomposition into irreducible components is not unique in general. In other words there are cases with infinitely many invariant subspaces.

Let G be a Lie group and L C G a Lie subgroup. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a family of cosets of L to generate a subsemigroup with nonempty interior in G. We apply these conditions to symmetric pairs (G, L) where L is a subgroup of G such that Go C L C Gi and r is an involutive automorphism of G. As a consequence we prove that for several r the fixed point group GI is a maximal semigroup.