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Parabolic Adjoint Action, Weierstrass Sections and Components of the Nilfibre in Type $A$

Representation Theory 2021-06-29 v1

Abstract

This work is a continuation of [Y. Fittouhi and A. Joseph, Weierstrass Sections for Parabolic adjoint action in type AA]. Let GG be an irreducible simple algebraic group and BB a Borel subgroup of GG. Let n\mathfrak n be the Lie algebra of the nilradical of BB. Consider an irreducible subgroup PP of GG containing BB. Let PP' be the derived group of PP. Let m\mathfrak m be the Lie algebra of the nilradical of PP. A theorem of Richardson asserts that the algebra C[m]P\mathbb C[\mathfrak m]^{P'} of PP semi-invariants is multiplicity-free. A linear subvariety e+Ve+V such that the restriction map induces an isomorphism of C[m]P\mathbb C[\mathfrak m]^{P'} onto C[e+V]\mathbb C[e+V] is called a Weierstrass section for the action of PP' on m\mathfrak m. Here in type AA such a section is constructed, but in better form than that given in Sect. 4, loc cit. Yet the main difference is a complete change of emphasis from the construction of a Weierstrass section, to its application. Let N\mathscr N be the nilfibre relative to this action. From the construction of a Weierstrass section e+Ve+V, it is shown that eNe \in \mathscr N. Then P.eP.e is contained in a unique irreducible component C\mathscr C of N\mathscr N. The structure of e+Ve+V is used to give a rather explicit description of C\mathscr C as a BB saturation set, that is of the form B.u\overline{B.\mathfrak u}, where u\mathfrak u is a subalgebra of n\mathfrak n . This algebra is not necessarily complemented by a subalgebra in n\mathfrak n and so B.u\overline{B.\mathfrak u} is not necessarily an orbital variety closure (hence Lagrangian) but it can be. It is shown that C\mathscr C need not contain a dense PP orbit and this by a purely theoretical analysis. This occurs for an appropriate parabolic in A10A_{10} and is possibly the simplest example. In this particular case C\mathscr C is not an orbital variety closure.

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@article{arxiv.2106.14477,
  title  = {Parabolic Adjoint Action, Weierstrass Sections and Components of the Nilfibre in Type $A$},
  author = {Yasmine Fittouhi and Anthony Joseph},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.14477},
  year   = {2021}
}