Equations of some wonderful compactifications

DOI10.5802/AIF.2668zbMATH Open1298.14050arXiv1003.1704OpenAlexW2963437356MaRDI QIDQ416019FDOQ416019

Authors: Pascal Hivert 

Publication date: 9 May 2012

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: De Concini and Procesi have defined the wonderful compactification of a symmetric space X=G/H with G a semisimple adjoint group and H the subgroup of fixed points of G by an involution s. It is a closed subvariety of a grassmannian of the Lie algebra L of G. In this paper, we prove that, when the rank of X is equal to the rank of G, the variety is defined by linear equations. The set of equations expresses the fact that the invariant alternate trilinear form w on L vanishes on the (-1)-eigenspace of s.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1704

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebrawonderful compactificationsymmetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27)

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