On the existence of smooth orbital varieties in simple Lie algebras

DOI10.1112/JLMS.12293zbMATH Open1484.17012arXiv1810.12408OpenAlexW2983750497MaRDI QIDQ3304705FDOQ3304705

Authors: Lucas Fresse, Anna Melnikov 

Publication date: 3 August 2020

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The orbital varieties are the irreducible components of the intersection between a nilpotent orbit and a Borel subalgebra of the Lie algebra of a reductive group. There is a geometric correspondence between orbital varieties and irreducible components of Springer fibers. In type A, a construction due to Richardson implies that every nilpotent orbit contains at least one smooth orbital variety and every Springer fiber contains at least one smooth component. In this paper, we show that this property is also true for the other classical cases. Our proof uses the interpretation of Springer fibers as varieties of isotropic flags and van Leeuwen's parametrization of their components in terms of domino tableaux. In the exceptional cases, smooth orbital varieties do not arise in every nilpotent orbit, as already noted by Spaltenstein. We however give a (non-exhaustive) list of nilpotent orbits which have this property. Our treatment of exceptional cases relies on an induction procedure for orbital varieties, similar to the induction procedure for nilpotent orbits.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12408

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Combinatorial aspects of groups and algebras (05E16)

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