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Journal of Lie Theory 14 (2004), No. 2, 569--581
Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2004

On the Principal Bundles over a Flag Manifold

Hassan Azad
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, King Fahd University, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia, hassanaz@kfupm.edu.sa

Indranil Biswas
School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Bombay 400005, India, indranil@math.tifr.res.in

[Abstract-pdf]

Let $P$ be a parabolic subgroup of a semisimple simply connected linear algebraic group $G$ over $\mathbb C$ and $\rho$ an irreducible homomorphism from $P$ to a complex reductive group $H$. We show that the associated principal $H$--bundle over $G/P$, associated for $\rho$ to the principal $P$--bundle defined by the quotient map $G\, \longrightarrow\, G/P$, is stable. We describe the Harder--Narasimhan reduction of the $G$--bundle over $G/P$ obtained using the composition $P\, \longrightarrow\, L(P)\, \longrightarrow\, G$, where $L(P)$ is the Levi factor of $P$.

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