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A characterization of nilpotent orbit closures among symplectic singularities

Algebraic Geometry 2022-07-28 v5 Representation Theory

Abstract

We prove that a conical symplectic variety with maximal weight 1 is isomorphic to one of the following: (i) an affine space with the standard symplectic form (ii) a nilpotent orbit closure of a complex semisimple Lie algebra with the Kirillov-Kostant form.

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@article{arxiv.1603.06105,
  title  = {A characterization of nilpotent orbit closures among symplectic singularities},
  author = {Yoshinori Namikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.06105},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Version 5: 7 pages, several parts are improved in exposition