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Singularities of closures of spherical $B$-conjugacy classes of nilpotent orbits

Algebraic Geometry 2016-04-11 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

We prove that for a simply laced group, the closure of the Borel conjugacy class of any nilpotent element of height 22 in its conjugacy class is normal and admits a rational resolution. We extend this, using Frobenius splitting techniques, to the closure in the whole Lie algebra if either the group has type AA or the element has rank 22.

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@article{arxiv.1412.5654,
  title  = {Singularities of closures of spherical $B$-conjugacy classes of nilpotent orbits},
  author = {Martin Bender and Nicolas Perrin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5654},
  year   = {2016}
}

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23 pages. Replaces arXiv:1412.5654. New results added