Affine slice for the coadjoint action of a class of biparabolic subalgebras of a semisimple Lie algebra (Q1956365): Difference between revisions

Let \(\mathfrak{g}\) be a finite-dimensional semisimple Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. With aid of some nice properties of Kostant's cascade construction of pairwise strongly orthogonal roots, the authors give an explicit construction of an affine slice for the coadjoint action of standard biparabolic subalgebras of \(\mathfrak{g}\), which contains all Borel subalgebras. More generally, suppose that there exists an affine slice for the coadjoint action of a finite-dimension algebraic Lie algebra \(\mathcal{G}\), then the authors further show that the field of \(G\)-invariant rational functions on \(\mathcal{G}^*\) is a purely transcendental extension of the ground field, where \(G\) is the algebraic adjoint group of \(\mathcal{G}\).