Abelian Ideals and the Variety of Lagrangian Subalgebras

Abstract: For a semisimple algebraic group

G

of adjoint type with Lie algebra

m a t h f r a k g

over the complex numbers, we establish a bijection between the set of closed orbits of the group

G l t i m e s m a t h f r a k g^{a s t}

acting on the variety of Lagrangian subalgebras of

m a t h f r a k g l t i m e s m a t h f r a k g^{a s t}

and the set of abelian ideals of a fixed Borel subalgebra of

m a t h f r a k g

. In particular, the number of such orbits equals

2^{e x t r k m a t h f r a k g}

by Peterson's theorem on abelian ideals.

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