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Elliptic elements in a Weyl group: a homogeneity property

Representation Theory 2010-08-17 v2

Abstract

Let G be a reductive group over an algebraically closed field whose characteristic is not a bad prime for G. Let w be an elliptic element of the Weyl group which has minimal length in its conjugacy class. We show that there exists a unique unipotent class X in G such that the following holds: if V is the variety of pairs consisting of an element g in X and a Borel subgroup B such that B,gBg^{-1} are in relative position w, then V is a homogeneous G-space.

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@article{arxiv.1007.5040,
  title  = {Elliptic elements in a Weyl group: a homogeneity property},
  author = {G. Lusztig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.5040},
  year   = {2010}
}

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29 pages; a new section added

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