Classification of smooth affine spherical varieties

DOI10.1007/S00031-005-1116-3MaRDI QIDQ862282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bart Van Steirteghem, Friedrich Knop

Publication date 24 January 2007

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505102

zbMATH Keywords

cotangent bundlehamiltonian actionhomogeneous vector bundlespherical variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17)

Abstract: Let G be a complex reductive group. A normal G-variety X is called spherical if a Borel subgroup of G has a dense orbit in X. Of particular interest are spherical varieties which are smooth and affine since they form local models for multiplicity free Hamiltonian K-manifolds, K a maximal compact subgroup of G. In this paper, we classify all smooth affine spherical varieties up to coverings, central tori, and C*-fibrations.

Review text

A spherical variety is a normal variety \(X\) acted on by a reductive group \(G\) in such a way that a Borel subgroup \(B\subseteq G\) has an open orbit in \(X\). The paper deals with the classification of affine smooth spherical varieties. The latter serve as local models for multiplicity free Hamiltonian actions of a maximal compact subgroup \(K\subset G\) [\textit{M. Brion}, in: Sémin. d'algébre P. Dubreil et. M.-P. Malliavin, Proc., Paris 1986, Lect. Notes Math. 1296, 177--192 (1987; Zbl 0667.58012)], which justifies the importance of the problem. The first step is to apply Luna's slice theorem and deduce that \(X\simeq G\times^HV\) is an equivariant vector bundle over a spherical homogeneous space \(G/H\) with reductive stabilizer \(H\) whose fiber \(V\) is a spherical module for a certain reductive subgroup \(L\subset H\). The latter subgroup is the image in \(H\) of the generic isotropy subgroup for the \(G\)-action on the cotangent bundle of \(G/\widetilde{H}\), where \(\widetilde{H}\) is the maximal central extension of~\(H\) in~\(G\). Making use of that, the classification is derived from the classification of affine spherical homogeneous spaces [\textit{M. Krämer}, Compos. Math. 38, 129--153 (1979; Zbl 0402.22006), \textit{M. Brion}, Compos. Math. 63, 189--208 (1987; Zbl 0642.14011), \textit{I. V. Mikityuk}, Math. USSR, Sb. 57, 527--546 (1987); translation from Mat. Sb., Nov. Ser. 129(171), No. 4, 514--534 (1986; Zbl 0652.70012)] and spherical modules [\textit{V. G. Kac}, J. Algebra 64, 190--213 (1980; Zbl 0431.17007), \textit{M. Brion}, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 18, 345--387 (1985; Zbl 0588.22010), \textit{C. Benson} and \textit{G. Ratcliff}, J. Algebra 181, No. 1, 152--186 (1996; Zbl 0869.14021), \textit{A. S. Leahy}, J. Lie Theory 8, No. 2, 367--391 (1998; Zbl 0910.22015)]. In fact, the classification is obtained only up to coverings, central tori, and \(\mathbb C^{\times}\)-fibrations, due to some problems in the case of disconnected \(H\) and of \(G\) or \(H\) containing torus factors.

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