On varieties in an orbital variety closure in semisimple Lie algebras (Q2576972)

The paper studies the closure of an orbital variety as a union of varieties. It is shown that if a semisimple Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\) contains factors not of type \(A_n\) then there are orbital varieties whose closure contains components which are not Lagrangian. It is shown that the argument does not work if all the factors are of type \(A_n\) and provide the facts supporting the conjecture claiming that if all the factors of \(\mathfrak g\) are of type \(A_n\) then the closure of an orbital variety is a union of orbital varieties.