Homology of generalized Steinberg varieties and Weyl group invariants

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04570-4zbMATH Open1153.22014arXivmath/0505567OpenAlexW1990117358MaRDI QIDQ3532550FDOQ3532550

J. Matthew Douglass, Gerhard Röhrle

Publication date: 28 October 2008

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

Abstract: Let $G$ be a complex, connected, reductive algebraic group. In this paper we show analogues of the computations by Borho and MacPherson of the invariants and anti-invariants of the cohomology of the Springer fibres of the cone of nilpotent elements, $mathcalN$, of $operatornameLie(G)$ for the Steinberg variety $Z$ of triples. Using a general specialization argument we show that for a parabolic subgroup $W_{P}imes{W}_Q$ of $WimesW$ the space of $W_{P}imes{W}_Q$-invariants and the space of $W_{P}imes{W}_Q$-anti-invariants of $H_{4n}(Z)$ are isomorphic to the top Borel-Moore homology groups of certain generalized Steinberg varieties introduced in [5]. The rational group algebra of the Weyl group $W$ of $G$ is isomorphic to the opposite of the top Borel-Moore homology $H_{4n}(Z)$ of $Z$, where $2n=dimmathcalN$. Suppose $W_{P}imes{W}_Q$ is a parabolic subgroup of $WimesW$. We show that the space of $W_{P}imes{W}_Q$-invariants of $H_{4n}(Z)$ is $e_{Q}mathbbQW{e}_P$, where $e_P$ is the idempotent in group algebra of $W_P$ affording the trivial representation of $W_P$ and $e_Q$ is defined similarly. We also show that the space of $W_{P}imes{W}_Q$-anti-invariants of $H_{4n}(Z)$ is $epsilo{n}_{Q}mathbbQWepsilo{n}_P$, where $epsilo{n}_P$ is the idempotent in group algebra of $W_P$ affording the sign representation of $W_P$ and $epsilo{n}_Q$ is defined similarly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505567

zbMATH Keywords

parabolic subgroupsBorel-Moore homologyBorel subgroupsWeyl group actiongeneralized Steinberg varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Linear algebraic groups and related topics (20G99) Sheaf cohomology in algebraic topology (55N30)

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• Steinberg unitary Lie algebras and skew-dihedral homology
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• Equivariant \(K\)-theory of generalized Steinberg varieties
• Homological realization of Nakajima varieties and Weyl group actions
• The Steinberg variety and representations of reductive groups.

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