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Let G be an almost simple group over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic zero, let g be its Lie algebra and let B be a Borel subgroup of G. Then B acts with finitely many orbits on the variety N_2 of the nilpotent elements in…

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In this paper, we begin a quantization program for nilpotent orbits of a real semisimple Lie group. These orbits and their covers generalize the symplectic vector space. A complex structure polarizing the orbit and invariant under a maximal…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Ranee Brylinski

We partially describe equivariant Dirac and generalized complex structures on a homogeneous space $G/K$ by giving equivalent data involving only the Lie algebra. We consider real semisimple adjoint orbits in any semisimple Lie algebra over…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-12 Brett Milburn

Let G be a simple, simply-connected algebraic group over the complex numbers with Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$. The main result of this article is a proof that each irreducible representation of the fundamental group of the orbit O through a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Eric Sommers

We determine the equivariant real structures on nilpotent orbits and the normalizations of their closures for the adjoint action of a complex semisimple algebraic group on its Lie algebra.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Michael Bulois , Lucy Moser-Jauslin , Ronan Terpereau

Gibbs states are probability distributions defined on Hamiltonian G-manifolds that are naturally parametrized by elements of the Lie algebra g. In this paper, we focus on a specific case of the simplest Hamiltonian G-manifolds, the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Guillaume Neuttiens , Jérémie Pierard de Maujouy

Let $G$ be a semisimple algebraic group with Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$. For a nilpotent $G$-orbit $\mathcal O\subset\mathfrak g$, let $d_\mathcal O$ denote the maximal dimension of a subspace $V\subset \mathfrak g$ that is contained in the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Dmitri Panyushev , Oksana Yakimova

Coulomb branches of a set of $3d\ \mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories are closures of nilpotent orbits of the algebra $\mathfrak{so}(n)$. From the point of view of string theory, these quantum field theories can be understood as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-21 Santiago Cabrera , Amihay Hanany , Zhenghao Zhong

We show that the numbers of nilpotent coadjoint orbits in the dual of exceptional Lie algebra $G_2$ in characteristic $3$ and in the dual of exceptional Lie algebra $F_4$ in characteristic $2$ are finite. We determine the closure relation…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Ting Xue

Let $G$ be a simply connected semisimple algebraic group with Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$, let $G_0 \subset G$ be the symmetric subgroup defined by an algebraic involution $\sigma$ and let $\mathfrak g_1 \subset \mathfrak g$ be the isotropy…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Jacopo Gandini , Pierluigi Moseneder Frajria , Paolo Papi

We give a full classification of 6-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras over an arbitrary field, including fields that are not algebraically closed and fields of characteristic~2. To achieve the classification we use the action of the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Serena Cicalo , Willem A de Graaf , Csaba Schneider

The second de Rham cohomology groups of nilpotent orbits in non-compact real forms of classical complex simple Lie algebras are explicitly computed. Furthermore, the first de Rham cohomology groups of nilpotent orbits in non-compact…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Indranil Biswas , Pralay Chatterjee , Chandan Maity

We give the first examples of nonabelian left-orderable groups such that the conjugacy orbit equivalence relation on its space of orders has infinity orbits, yet it is smooth in the Borel sense. The examples are all nilpotent groups and we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Emir Molina Taucán

In general, a nilpotent orbit closure in a complex simple Lie algebra \g, does not have a crepant resolution. But, it always has a Q-factorial terminalization by the minimal model program. According to B. Fu, a nilpotent orbit closure has a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-11 Yoshinori Namikawa

Parabolic subalgebras of semi-simple Lie algebras decompose as $\frak{p}=\frak{m}\oplus\frak{n}$ where $\frak{m}$ is a Levi factor and $\frak{n}$ the corresponding nilradical. By Richardsons theorem, there exists an open orbit under the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-18 Karin Baur

We prove that the classical $W$-algebra associated to a nilpotent orbit in a simple Lie-algebra can be constructed by preforming bihamiltonian, Drinfeld-Sokolov or Dirac reductions. We conclude that the classical $W$-algebra depends only on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-02 Yassir Dinar

We organize the nilpotent orbits in the exceptional complex Lie algebras into series using the triality model and show that within each series the dimension of the orbit is a linear function of the natural parameter a=1,2,4,8, respectively…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. M. Landsberg , L. Manivel , B. W. Westbury

For a semisimple Lie algebra over the complex numbers, Dynkin (1952) developed an algorithm to classify the regular semisimple subalgebras, up to conjugacy by the inner automorphism group. For a graded semisimple Lie algebra over the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-30 H. Dietrich , Paolo Faccin , Willem A. de Graaf

For local non-archimedean fields $k$ of sufficiently large residual characteristic, we explicitly parametrize and count the rational nilpotent adjoint orbits in each algebraic orbit of orthogonal and special orthogonal groups. We separately…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Tobias Bernstein , Jia-Jun Ma , Monica Nevins , Jit Wu Yap

It is known that there is a bijection between dominant weights of a complex reductive Lie group $G$ and the set $\mathcal{N}_{\mathcal{O},r}$ whose elements are of the form $(\mathcal{O},\rho)$, where $\mathcal{O}$ is a nilpotent orbit and…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Kayue Daniel Wong