Topological and homological properties of the orbit space of a simple three-dimensional compact linear Lie group

Abstract

The article is devoted to the question whether the orbit space of a compact linear group is a topological manifold and a homological manifold. In the paper, the case of a simple three-dimensional group is considered. An upper bound is obtained for the sum of the half-dimension integral parts of the irreducible components of a representation whose quotient space is a homological manifold, that enhances an earlier result giving the same bound if the quotient space of a representation is a smooth manifold. The most of the representations satisfying this bound are also researched before. In the proofs, standard arguments from linear algebra, theory of Lie groups and algebras and their representations are used.