Classification of affine homogeneous spaces of complexity one

DOI10.1070/SM2004V195N06ABEH000819MaRDI QIDQ4658312zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olga V. Chuvashova, Ivan V. Arzhantsev

Publication date 16 March 2005

Published in Sbornik: Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408101

zbMATH Keywords

algebra of invariantscomplexity of reductive group actionsisotropy representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: The complexity of an action of a reductive algebraic group G on an algebraic variety X is the codimension of a generic B-orbit in X, where B is a Borel subgroup of G. We classify affine homogeneous spaces G/H of complexity one. These results are the natural continuation of the classification of spherical affine homogeneous spaces, i.e., spaces of complexity zero.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a connected reductive algebraic group acting on an algebraic variety \(X\). By definition, the complexity of the action \((G:X)\) is the minimal codimension of \(B\)-orbits in \(X\), where \(B\) is a Borel subgroup of \(G\). The \(G\)-varieties of complexity zero are also called spherical. Various classification problems for spherical varieties have been considered in work of Kac, Brion, Mikityuk, Benson-Ratcliff, Leahy, Knop, and others. The natural next step is to study \(G\)-varieties of complexity 1. A classification of affine homogeneous spaces of simple algebraic groups, up to finite coverings, was obtained in the reviewer's article [in: Lie groups, their discrete subgroups, and invariant theory, Adv. Sov. Math. 8, 151--166 (1992; Zbl 0763.14024)]. The goal of the paper under review is to obtain such a classification for arbitrary semisimple groups \(G\). The main classification result says that all indecomposable saturated affine homogeneous spaces \(G/H\) appear in Table~4, with 30 items.

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