On stability of actions of reductive algebraic groups

Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Other algebraic groups (geometric aspects) (14L40) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Group actions on affine varieties (14R20)

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Let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Geometric invariant theory deals with actions of algebraic groups defined over \(k\) on algebraic \(k\)-varieties. One of the general problems, in this context, is the question of whether quotient varieties of different kinds do exist for such group actions. As it is known from the classical Hilbert-Mumford stability theory, quotients of varieties modulo reductive groups can sometimes be constructed under certain additional (stability) assumptions with respect to the concrete group action. This is the crucial fact that underlies the construction of various moduli spaces in algebraic geometry via geometric invariant theory. In the paper under review,the author proposes a purely algebraic approach to the notion of stability for group actions on varieties. This approach is surprisingly elementary and elegant, at least so in the affine case, and there it leads to various simplified proofs of known results by A. Borel, Harish-Chandra, Onishchik, V. L. Popov, Iwahori, Sugiura, and others. Moreover, the author produces -- via his approach -- some new criteria of stability of reductive group actions on irreducible affine varieties, which are highly interesting on their own. This paper is largely self-contained, easily readable, partly introductory and very detailed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0942.00024].

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