English

Spherical orbit closures in simple projective spaces and their normalizations

Algebraic Geometry 2018-06-26 v4 Representation Theory

Abstract

Let G be a simply connected semisimple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic 0 and let V be a rational simple G-module of finite dimension. If G/H \subset P(V) is a spherical orbit and if X is its closure, then we describe the orbits of X and those of its normalization. If moreover the wonderful completion of G/H is strict, then we give necessary and sufficient combinatorial conditions so that the normalization morphism is a homeomorphism. Such conditions are trivially fulfilled if G is simply laced or if H is a symmetric subgroup.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0907.1177,
  title  = {Spherical orbit closures in simple projective spaces and their normalizations},
  author = {Jacopo Gandini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1177},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

24 pages, LaTeX. v4: Final version, to appear in Transformation Groups. Simplified some proofs and corrected minor mistakes, added references. v3: major changes due to a mistake in previous versions

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