On involutions in the Weyl group and B-orbit closures in the orthogonal case

Abstract: We study coadjoint

B

-orbits on

m a t h f r a k n^{*}

, where

B

is a Borel subgroup of a complex orthogonal group

G

, and

m a t h f r a k n

is the Lie algebra of the unipotent radical of

B

. To each basis involution

w

in the Weyl group

W

of

G

one can assign the associated

B

-orbit

O m e g a_{w}

. We prove that, given basis involutions

s i g m a

,

a u

in

W

, if the orbit

O m e g a_{s i g m a}

is contained in the closure of the orbit

O m e g a_{a u}

then

s i g m a

is less than or equal to

a u

with respect to the Bruhat order on

W

. For a basis involution

w

, we also compute the dimension of

O m e g a_{w}

and present a conjectural description of the closure of

O m e g a_{w}

.

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