Point stabilisers for the enhanced and exotic nilpotent cones. (Q2882812)

Let \(W\) be a \(2n\)-dimensional vector space with symplectiv form \(\langle\;,\;\rangle\). The \textit{exotic} nilpotent cone is \(W\times\mathfrak N_0\) where NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\mathfrak N_0=\{y\in\text{End}(W)\mid y\text{ is nilpotent and }\langle yv,v\rangle=0\text{ for all }v\in W\}.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE If \(V\) is an \(n\)-dimensional vector space, then the \textit{enhanced} nilpotent cone is \(V\times\mathcal N\), where \(\mathcal N\) is the cone of nilpotent endomorphisms of \(V\).NEWLINENEWLINE The author studies the orbits and stabilizers for the action of \(\text{GL}(V)\) on the enhanced nilpotent cone and the action of \(\text{Sp}(W)\) on the exotic nilpotent cone. In particular, he arrives at formulas for the number of points in each orbit over a finite field. The results agree with a conjecture of Achar and Henderson.