On the complexity of reductive group actions over algebraically nonclosed field and strong stability of the actions on flag varieties (Q2313243)

The paper under review generalizes several results on reductive group actions to algebraically non-closed fields. Let \(k\) be a perfect field with algebraic closure \(K\). Let \(G\) be a reductive \(k\)-group acting on a \(k\)-dense variety \(X\). Fix a minimal parabolic \(k\)-subgroup \(P \subset G\) and define \(c_P(X)\), the complexity of \(X\), as the minimal codimension of \(P\)-orbits in \(X\). One defines the rank \(\mathrm{rk}_P(X)\) similarly. These quantities can also be defined for any \(P\)-invariant subvarieties of \(X\). We say \(X\) is \(k\)-spherical if there is an open \(P\)-orbit in \(X\), that is, \(c_P(X) = 0\). This scenario is playing an increasingly important role in representation theory. Theorem 1 asserts that when \(k\) is perfect, \(\mathrm{rk}_P(Y) \leq \mathrm{rk}_P(X)\) and \(c_P(Y) \leq c_P(X)\) for any \(P\)-invariant \(k\)-dense subvariety \(Y \subset X\). Theorem 2 asserts that when \(X\) is \(k\)-spherical, it has only finitely many \(P\)-orbits containing \(k\)-points. The paper contains a detailed sketch of the proof of Theorem 2. As for Theorem 1, a short sketch for locally compact \(k\) is given in the last page. The paper also includes several results on the strong \(k\)-stability of reductive subgroups acting on the flag variety. For example, Theorem 3 is a generalization of Popov's criterion of stability to algebraically non-closed fields.