On commuting varieties of nilradicals of Borel subalgebras of reductive Lie algebras

Abstract: Let

G

be a connected reductive algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field

m a t h b b m k

of characteristic zero. We consider the commuting variety

m a t h c a l C (m a t h f r a k u)

of the nilradical

m a t h f r a k u

of the Lie algebra

m a t h f r a k b

of a Borel subgroup

B

of

G

. In case

B

acts on

m a t h f r a k u

with only a finite number of orbits, we verify that

m a t h c a l C (m a t h f r a k u)

is equidimensional and that the irreducible components are in correspondence with the {em distinguished}

B

-orbits in

m a t h f r a k u

. We observe that in general

m a t h c a l C (m a t h f r a k u)

is not equidimensional, and determine the irreducible components of

m a t h c a l C (m a t h f r a k u)

in the minimal cases where there are infinitely many

B

-orbits in

m a t h f r a k u

.

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