Generically free representations I: large representations

DOI10.2140/ANT.2020.14.1577MaRDI QIDQ6293996arXivFDO

Authors Skip Garibaldi, Robert Guralnick

Publication date 15 November 2017

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/ANT.2020.14.1577

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Lie algebras of Lie groups (22E60)

arXiv classification

math.GRmath.RT

Abstract: For a simple linear algebraic group $G$ acting faithfully on a vector space $V$ and under mild assumptions, we show: if $V$ is large enough, then the Lie algebra of $G$ acts generically freely on $V$. That is, the stabilizer in the Lie algebra of $G$ of a generic vector in $V$ is zero. The bound on $dimV$ grows like $(mathrmrankG{)}^2$ and holds with only mild hypotheses on the characteristic of the underlying field. The proof relies on results on generation of Lie algebras by conjugates of an element that may be of independent interest. We use the bound in subsequent works to determine which irreducible faithful representations are generically free, with no hypothesis on the characteristic of the field. This in turn has applications to the question of which representations have a stabilizer in general position as well as the determination of the invariants of the representation.

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