Elliptic elements in a Weyl group: a homogeneity property.

DOI10.1090/S1088-4165-2012-00409-5zbMATH Open1282.20054arXiv1007.5040OpenAlexW2964327163MaRDI QIDQ2889347FDOQ2889347

Authors: G. Lusztig 

Publication date: 7 June 2012

Published in: Representation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let G be a reductive group over an algebraically closed field whose characteristic is not a bad prime for G. Let w be an elliptic element of the Weyl group which has minimal length in its conjugacy class. We show that there exists a unique unipotent class X in G such that the following holds: if V is the variety of pairs consisting of an element g in X and a Borel subgroup B such that B,gBg^{-1} are in relative position w, then V is a homogeneous G-space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.5040

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zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous spacesCoxeter groupsorbitsunipotent conjugacy classesflag varietiesreductive groupsWeyl groupsBorel subgroupselliptic conjugacy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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