Eigenvalue coincidences and K-orbits. I

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2014.08.051MaRDI QIDQ471902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 17 November 2014

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6661

algebraic group actions \(K\)-orbits on flag variety

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20)

Abstract: We study the variety

m a t h f r a k g (l)

consisting of matrices

x i n m a t h f r a k g l (n, C)

such that

x

and its

n - 1

by

n - 1

cutoff

x_{n - 1}

share exactly

l

eigenvalues, counted with multiplicity. We determine the irreducible components of

m a t h f r a k g (l)

by using the orbits of

G L (n - 1, C)

on the flag variety

B_{n}

of

m a t h f r a k g l (n, C)

. More precisely, let

m a t h f r a k b i n B_{n}

be a Borel subalgebra such that the orbit

G L (n - 1, C) c d o t m a t h f r a k b

in

B_{n}

has codimension

l

. Then we show that the set

Y_{f b} := A d (g) (x) : x i n m a t h f r a k b c a p m a t h f r a k g (l), g i n G L (n - 1, C)

is an irreducible component of

m a t h f r a k g (l)

, and every irreducible component of of

m a t h f r a k g (l)

is of the form

Y_{m a t h f r a k b}

, where

m a t h f r a k b

lies in a

G L (n - 1, C)

-orbit of codimension

l

. An important ingredient in our proof is the flatness of a variant of a morphism considered by Kostant and Wallach, and we prove this flatness assertion using ideas from symplectic geometry.

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