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Nilpotent Orbits for Borel Subgroups of $SO_{5}(k)$

Group Theory 2019-02-06 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a quasi-simple algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field kk and BB a Borel subgroup of GG acting on the nilradical n\mathfrak{n} of its Lie algebra b\mathfrak{b} via the Adjoint representation. It is known that BB has only finitely many orbits in only five cases: when GG is of type AnA_{n} for n4n \leq 4, and when GG is type B2B_{2}. In this paper, we elaborate on this work in the case when G=SO5(k)G =SO_{5}(k) (type B2)B_{2}) by finding the polynomial defining equations of each orbit. We use these equations to determine the dimension of the orbits and the closure ordering on the set of orbits. The other four cases, when GG is type AnA_{n}, can be approached the same way and are treated in a separate paper.

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@article{arxiv.1708.05154,
  title  = {Nilpotent Orbits for Borel Subgroups of $SO_{5}(k)$},
  author = {Madeleine Burkhart and David Vella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.05154},
  year   = {2019}
}

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