Spherical subgroups in simple algebraic groups.

DOI10.1112/S0010437X1400791XzbMATH Open1346.20066arXiv1305.3183OpenAlexW3103586814MaRDI QIDQ2947951FDOQ2947951

Authors: Friedrich Knop, Gerhard Röhrle 

Publication date: 29 September 2015

Published in: Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a simple algebraic group. A closed subgroup $H$ of $G$ is called spherical provided it has a dense orbit on the flag variety $G/B$ of $G$. Reductive spherical subgroups of simple Lie groups were classified by Kr"amer in 1979. In 1997, Brundan showed that each example from Kr"amer's list also gives rise to a spherical subgroup in the corresponding simple algebraic group in any positive characteristic. Nevertheless, there is no classification of all such instances in positive characteristic to date. The goal of this paper is to complete this classification. It turns out that there is only one additional instance (up to isogeny) in characteristic $2$ which has no counterpart in Kr"amer's classification. As one of our key tools, we prove a general deformation result for subgroup schemes allowing us to deduce the sphericality of subgroups in positive characteristic from this property for subgroups in characteristic $0$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3183

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zbMATH Keywords

simple algebraic groupssymmetric subgroupsconnected reductive spherical subgroupsspherical homogeneous varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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