The Picard group of a complex quotient variety (Q912927)

Consider a Stein complex space X, a reductive connected complex group G acting holomorphically on X and let X//G denote the categorical quotient (which has a structure of Stein space). The aim of this paper is to prove that the natural map Pic(X//G)\(\to Pic(X)\) is injective in each of the following situations: \((1)\quad G\quad is\) semisimple; and \((2)\quad X\quad is\) smooth and the radical of G has a fixed point on X.