Components of the Springer fiber and domino tableaux. (Q1427369)

In the study of reductive algebraic groups of classical type, many representation-theoretic objects have been classified in terms of combinatorial objects: such classifications are an essential tool in this subject. In this paper, the author gives elegant new parametrizations of the set of orbital varieties and the set of components of Springer fibers in the classical groups of type other than \(A_n\). Let \(G\) be a complex simple Lie group with Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\), and let \(u \in \mathfrak{g}\) be a nilpotent element. Recall that the irreducible components of \(\text{Ad}(G)u \cap \mathfrak{n}\), where \(\mathfrak{n}\) is the nilradical of a Borel subalgebra, are called \textit{orbital varieties}, and that the \textit{Springer fiber} over \(u\), denoted \(\mathcal{B}_u\), is the variety of Borel subalgebras containing \(u\). \textit{N. Spaltenstein} showed [Classes unipotentes et sous-groupes de Borel. Lect. Notes Math. 946 (Berlin, etc. 1982; Zbl 0486.20025)] that for \(G = GL_n(\mathbb{C})\), if \(u\) is in the nilpotent orbit labelled by a partition \(\lambda\), then the set of orbital varieties in \(\text{Ad}(G)u\) and the set of irreducible components of \(\mathcal{B}_u\) are each in one-to-one correspondence with the set of standard Young tableaux of shape \(\lambda\). The main theorems of this paper assert analogous results for the other classical groups, with standard Young tableaux replaced by D. Garfinkle's ``standard domino tableaux''. The author also shows that his parametrization of orbital varieties is compatible with his parametrization of components of Springer fibers by studying the \(\tau\)-invariants of these objects.