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The Canonical Component of the nilfibre for Parabolic adjoint action in type $A$

Representation Theory 2022-11-15 v1

Abstract

This work is a continuation of [Fittouhi and Joseph, Parabolic adjoint action, Weierstrass Sections and components of the nilfibre in type AA]. Let PP be a parabolic subgroup of an irreducible simple algebraic group GG, PP' its derived group and m\mathfrak m be the nilradical to its Lie algebra. A theorem of Richardson implies that the subalgebra C[m]P\mathbb C[\mathfrak m]^{P'}, spanned by the PP semi-invariants in C[m]\mathbb C[\mathfrak m], is polynomial. A linear subvariety e+Ve+V of m\mathfrak m is is called a Weierstrass section for the action of PP' on m\mathfrak m, if the restriction map induces an isomorphism of C[m]P\mathbb C[\mathfrak m]^{P'} onto C[e+V]\mathbb C[e+V]. Thus a Weierstrass section can exist only if the latter is polynomial, but even when this holds its existence is far from assured. The existence of a Weierstrass section e+Ve+V in m\mathfrak m was established by a general combinatorial construction. Notably eNe \in \mathscr N and is a sum of root vectors with linearly independent roots. The Weierstraass section e+Ve+V looks very different for different choices of parabolics but nevertheless has a uniform construction and exists in all cases. It is called the "canonical Weierstrass section". It was announced in [Fittouhi and Joseph, loc. cit.] that one may augment ee to an element eVSe_{VS} by adjoining root vectors. Then the linear span EVSE_{VS} of these root vectors lies in Ne\mathscr N^e and its closure is just Ne\mathscr N^e. Yet this result shows that Ne\mathscr N^e need not admit a dense PP orbit. However this theorem was only verified in the special case needed to obtain the example showing that Ne\mathscr N^e may fail to admit a dense PP orbit. Here a general proof is given. Finally a map from compositions to the set of distinct non-negative integers is defined. Its image is shown to determine the canonical Weierstrass section.

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@article{arxiv.2211.06845,
  title  = {The Canonical Component of the nilfibre for Parabolic adjoint action in type $A$},
  author = {Yasmine Fittouhi and Anthony Joseph},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06845},
  year   = {2022}
}