Quivers and the invariant theory of Levi subgroups (Q1328261)

We develop a theory of invariants using the formalism of quivers generalizing earlier results attributed to Procesi. This enables us to describe the invariant theory of certain block diagonal subgroups, generalizing results of Klink and Ton-That. As another application, let \(H\) be the Levi component of a parabolic subgroup of a classical Lie group \(G\) with Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\). We describe a finite set of generators of \({\mathcal P}[{\mathfrak g}]^ H\), the space of \(H\)-invariant polynomials on \({\mathfrak g}\), as well as the \(H\)-invariants in the universal enveloping algebra, \({\mathcal U}({\mathfrak g})^ H\), thus generalizing results of Klink and Ton-That, and Zhu.