About Knop's action of the Weyl group on the set of orbits of a spherical subgroup in the flag manifold (Q2507538)

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About Knop's action of the Weyl group on the set of orbits of a spherical subgroup in the flag manifold
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    About Knop's action of the Weyl group on the set of orbits of a spherical subgroup in the flag manifold (English)
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    11 October 2006
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    Let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic char \(k \neq 2\). Let \(G\) be a connected reductive algebraic group over \(k\) and let \(\mathcal B\) be the flag variety of \(G\). For any spherical subgroup \(H\) of \(G\) \textit{F. Knop} [Comment. Math. Helv. 70, No.2, 285-309 (1995; Zbl 0828.22016)] defined an action of the Weyl group \(W\) of \(G\) on the (finite) set of \(H\)-orbits in \(\mathcal B\). In his paper, F. Knop proved the existence of this action in a very technical and complicated way. The author of the paper under review constructs these \(W\)-orbits in an elementary fashion by using natural invariants.
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    Weyl group
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    flag manifold
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    spherical subgroup
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    Knop action
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