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Spherical conjugacy classes and Bruhat decomposition

Group Theory 2009-02-05 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

Let G be a connected, reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero or good and odd. We characterize the spherical conjugacy classes of G as those intersecting only Bruhat cells corresponding to involutions in the Weyl group of G.

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@article{arxiv.0808.1818,
  title  = {Spherical conjugacy classes and Bruhat decomposition},
  author = {Giovanna Carnovale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1818},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Final version, to appear in Ann. Inst. Fourier, Grenoble

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