Spherical nilpotent orbits and abelian subalgebras in isotropy representations

Abstract: Let

G

be a simply connected semisimple algebraic group with Lie algebra

m a t h f r a k g

, let

G_{0} s u b s e t G

be the symmetric subgroup defined by an algebraic involution

s i g m a

and let

m a t h f r a k g_{1} s u b s e t m a t h f r a k g

be the isotropy representation of

G_{0}

. Given an abelian subalgebra

m a t h f r a k a

of

m a t h f r a k g

contained in

m a t h f r a k g_{1}

and stable under the action of some Borel subgroup

B_{0} s u b s e t G_{0}

, we classify the

B_{0}

-orbits in

m a t h f r a k a

and we characterize the sphericity of

G_{0} m a t h f r a k a

. Our main tool is the combinatorics of

s i g m a

-minuscule elements in the affine Weyl group of

m a t h f r a k g

and that of strongly orthogonal roots in Hermitian symmetric spaces.

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