Jet schemes of the closure of nilpotent orbits

DOI10.2140/PJM.2016.281.137MaRDI QIDQ2634646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anne Moreau, Rupert W. T. Yu

Publication date 18 February 2016

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6427

zbMATH Keywords

inductionjet schemesnilpotent orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20)

Abstract: We study in this paper the jet schemes of the closure of nilpotent orbits in a finite-dimensional complex reductive Lie algebra. For the nilpotent cone, which is the closure of the regular nilpotent orbit, all the jet schemes are irreducible. This was first observed by Eisenbud and Frenkel, and follows from a strong result of Mustau{t}c{a} (2001). Using induction and restriction of "little" nilpotent orbits in reductive Lie algebras, we show that for a large number of nilpotent orbits, the jet schemes of their closure are reducible. As a consequence, we obtain certain geometrical properties of these nilpotent orbit closures.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a complex connected reductive algebraic group and let \(\overline{\mathcal O}\) be the closure of the \(G\)-orbit \(\mathcal O\) of a nilpotent element of the Lie algebra of \(G\) with respect to the adjoint action. The authors consider the following question: Let \(m\) be a positive integer; is the \(m\)-th jet scheme of \(\overline{\mathcal O}\) irreducible? They show that for a large number of orbits \(\mathcal O\) the answer is negative. Using this result they deduce certain results about geometric properties of \(\overline{\mathcal O}\) (normality, complete intersection).

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