Affine hyperplane arrangements and Jordan classes (Q2233681)

Summary: We study the geometry of the stratification induced by an affine hyperplane arrangement \(\mathscr{H}\) on the quotient of a complex affine space by the action of a discrete group preserving \(\mathscr{H}\). We give conditions ensuring normality or normality in codimension 1 of strata. We apply these results to retrieve the list of the categorical quotients of closures of Jordan classes and of sheets in a complex simple algebraic group \(G\) that are normal. In the simply-connected case, we show that normality of such a quotient is equivalent to its smoothness.