Compatible adapted pairs and a common slice theorem for some centralizers (Q1024598): Difference between revisions

The paper under review is dedicated to the 80th birthday of Bertram Kostant who, in his exceptional career already spanning more than 50 years, has inspired many generations of mathematicians. As the author mentions, the present study is a modest example, drawing from the remarkably simple and purely algebraic proof of Kostant that regular coadjoint orbits for semisimple Lie algebras admit a slice and the relation this has to the polynomiality of the algebra of invariants. Let \(\mathfrak g\) be a finite dimensional complex simple Lie algebra with adjoint group \(G\). Let \(x\in \mathfrak g\) be nilpotent with centralizer \({\mathfrak g}^x\). The author derives a criterion for when the \(G\)-orbits in \({\mathfrak g}^{\ast}\) and the \(G^x\)-orbits in \(({\mathfrak g}^x)^{\ast}\) admit a common slice, applicable (in principle) when \(x\) is of Bala-Carter type. When \(\mathfrak g\) is of type \(A\), or if \(x\) is the highest root vector with \(\mathfrak g\) not of type \( E_8\), he shows that this criterion is satisfied. In these cases he also shows that the Mishchenko-Fomenko shift of argument produces a maximal Poisson commutative polynomial subalgebra of \(S({\mathfrak g}^x)\) which maps isomorphically by restriction of functions to an affine translate of a subspace of \(({\mathfrak g}^x)^{\ast}\). The author conjectures that the above criterion is satisfied when the dimensions of certain weights spaces, which can be computed purely combinatorially, are decreasing.