Invariant meromorphic functions on Stein spaces (Q1931240)

Let \(G\) be a complex reductive Lie group and let \(X\) be a Stein \(G\)-space, then following \textit{D. M. Snow} [Math. Ann. 259, 79--97 (1982; Zbl 0509.32021)] and \textit{P. Heinzer} [Math. Ann. 289, No.4, 631--662 (1991; Zbl 0728.32010)], the geometric quotient \(\pi: X\to Q\) for the action of \(G\) exists; furthermore \(Q\) is Stein. However, \(Q\) is not algebraic in general. However if \(X\) is, furthermore, an \(H\)-irreducible Stein \(G\)-space, where \(H\) is an algebraic subgroup of \(G\), then in Section 6.3, the authors find a \(G\)-equivariant map \(\phi: X\to Y\) into an \(H\)-irreducible affine variety \(Y\). In view of the Theorem by \textit{M. Rosenlicht} [ Am. J. Math. 78, 401--443 (1956; Zbl 0073.37601)] (Theorem 2.3), which is the main motivation of this paper, the authors show that (Section 6) there exists an algebraically Zariski-open \(H\)-irreducible subset \(\Omega_Y\) of \(Y\) which admits an algebraic geometric quotient \(p_Y:\Omega_Y\to \Omega_Y/H\). The above-mentioned preparations are the main ingredients of the following main result of the paper: Main Theorem. Let \(H<G\) be an algebraic subgroup of a complex-reductive Lie group \(G\) and let \(X\) be a Stein \(G\)-space. Then there exist an \(H\)-invariant Zariski-open dense subset \(\Omega\) in \(X\) and a holomorphic map \(p:\Omega\to Q\) to a Stein space \(Q\) such that (1) \(p\) is a geometric quotient for the \(H\)-action on \(\Omega\), (2) \(p\) is universal with respect to \(H\)-stable analytic subsets of \(\Omega\), (3) \(p\) is a submersion and realizes \(\Omega\) as a topological fibre bundle over \(Q\), (4) \(p\) extends to a weakly meromorphic map from \(X\) to \(Q\), (5) \(p\) induces an isomorphism between the fields \({\mathcal M}_X(X)^H\) and \({\mathcal M}_Q(Q)\) of meromorphic functions, and (6) the \(H\)-invariant meromorphic functions on \(X\) separate the \(H\)-orbits in \(\Omega\). The last 3 properties in the Main Theorem are carried out in Section 7.