Generic stabilizers in actions of simple algebraic groups

DOI10.1090/MEMO/1502MaRDI QIDQ6605409zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 13 September 2024

Published in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/MEMO/1502

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to group theory (20-02) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

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In the paper under review, the authors treat the faithful actions of simple algebraic groups on irreducible modules and on the associated Grassmannian varieties. Let \(G\) be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field \(K\) of characteristic \(p\) and \(V\) a non-trivial irreducible \(G\)-module of dimension \(d\). For \(k = 1, \ldots, d\) the Grassmannian variety \(\mathcal{G}_{k}(V)\) consists of the \(k\)-dimensional subspaces of \(V\), and has dimension \(k(d-k)\); as the action of \(G\) on \(V\) is linear, it extends naturally to \(\mathcal{G}_{k}(V)\). Since \(\mathcal{G}_{d-k}(V) \simeq \mathcal{G}_{k}(V^{\ast})\) (where \(V^{\ast}\) is the dual of \(V\)), it is sufficient to consider the cases \(1 \leq k \leq d/2\). Let \(X\) be an irreducible variety on which \(G\) acts. If \(G_{X}\) is the kernel of the action, then \(G/G_{X}\) acts faithfully on \(X\). If \(\widehat{X}\) is a non-empty open set in \(X\) and for all \(x, x'\in \widehat{X}\), the stabilizers in \(G/G_{X}\) of \(x\) and \(x'\) are isomorphic subgroups, then the action has a semi-generic stabilizer, whose isomorphism type is shared by each such subgroup \(C_{G/G_{X}}(x)\) for \(x\in \widehat{X}\). If moreover \(\widehat{X}\) has the property that for all \(x,x' \in \widehat{X}\) the stabilizers in \(G/G_{X}\) of \(x\) and \(x'\) are conjugate subgroups, we say that the action has a generic stabilizer, whose conjugacy class is that containing each such subgroup \(C_{G/G_{X}}(x)\) for \(x\in \widehat{X}\). The most basic result is Theorem 1: Let \(G\) be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p\), and \(V\) a non-trivial irreducible \(G\)-module of dimension \(d\). (i) The action of \(G\) on \(V\) has a generic stabilizer. (ii) For \(1 \leq k \leq d/2\), either the action of \(G\) on \(\mathcal{G}_{k}(V)\) has a generic stabilizer, or \(G =\mathsf{B}_{3}\) or \(\mathsf{C}_{3}\), \(p=2\), \(V\) is the spin module for \(G\) and \(k=4\), in which case the action of \(G\) on \(\mathcal{G}_{k}(V)\) has a semi-generic stabilizer but not a generic stabilizer. The proof of Theorem 1 and the determination of the generic stabilizers occupy the entirety of this work and involve a great deal of case analysis. The authors provide tables listing generic stabilizers in the cases where they are non-trivial. In addition, they decide whether or not there is a dense orbit or a regular orbit for the action on the module.

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