On a conjecture of C. T. C. Wall

DOI10.1215/KJM/1250519680MaRDI QIDQ2367476zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rajendra Gurjar

Publication date 15 August 1993

Published in Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/kjm/1250519680

zbMATH Keywords

quotient of a linear spacequotient singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Almost homogeneous manifolds and spaces (32M12)

Review text

In 1987 the reviewer conjectured that every 2 dimensional quotient of a linear space by a reductive algebraic group (over \(\mathbb{C})\) has a quotient singularity. This paper presents a short proof of a more general result: that any quotient \(V=X/G\) \((X\) smooth affine, \(G\) reductive) can be presented as a quotient \(\mathbb{C}^ k/H\) (with \(H\) a reductive subgroup of \(G)\) such that the preimage of \(\text{Sing} V\) has codimension \(>1\) in \(\mathbb{C}^ k\), and hence \(V-\text{Sing} V\) has finite fundamental group. The key idea is that we can simply remove from \(X\) any component of codimension 1 of \(\pi^{-1}\text{Sing} V\) without altering the quotient, and then use Luna's slice theorem to reduce to the linear case, with lowered dimension.

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