Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations on adjoint orbits (Q312790)

It is proved that adjoint orbits of semisimple Lie algebras have the structure of symplectic Lefschetz fibrations: Let \(\mathfrak{h}\) be the Cartan subalgebra of a complex semisimple Lie algebra. Given \(H_0\in \mathfrak{h}\) and \(H\in \mathfrak{h}_{\mathbb{R}}\) with \(H\) a regular element. The height function \(f_H:\mathcal{O}(H_0)\to \mathbb{C}\) defined by \(f_H(x)=\langle H, x\rangle\) has a finite number of isolated singularities and gives \(\mathcal{O}(H_0)\) (adjoint orbit of \(H_0\)) the structure of a symplectic Lefschetz fibration. The topology of the regular and singular fibres is described, their middle Betti numbers are computed.