On the coadjoint orbits of maximal unipotent subgroups of reductive groups.

DOI10.1007/S00031-015-9318-9zbMATH Open1348.20053arXiv1409.4591OpenAlexW1639830652MaRDI QIDQ292173FDOQ292173

Gerhard Röhrle, Simon M. Goodwin, Peter Mosch

Publication date: 10 June 2016

Published in: Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let G be a simple algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 or a good prime for G. Let U be a maximal unipotent subgroup of G and u its Lie algebra. We prove the separability of orbit maps and the connectedness of centralizers for the coadjoint action of U on (certain quotients of) the dual u* of u. This leads to a method to give a parametrization of the coadjoint orbits in terms of so-called minimal representatives which form a disjoint union of quasi-affine varieties. Moreover, we obtain an algorithm to explicitly calculate this parametrization which has been used for G of rank at most 8, except E8. When G is defined and split over the field of q elements, for q the power of a good prime for G, this algorithmic parametrization is used to calculate the number k(U(q), u*(q)) of coadjoint orbits of U(q) on u*(q). Since k(U(q), u*(q)) coincides with the number k(U(q)) of conjugacy classes in U(q), these calculations can be viewed as an extension of the results obtained in our earlier paper. In each case considered here there is a polynomial h(t) with integer coefficients such that for every such q we have k(U(q)) = h(q).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4591

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zbMATH Keywords

modalitycoadjoint orbitscomplex charactersreductive pairssimple algebraic groupsunipotent conjugacy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to group theory (20-04) Structure theory for linear algebraic groups (20G07)

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