Rationality of normal forms of isotropy strata of a representation of a compact Lie group

Abstract: In this article we study the isotropy stratification of a linear representation

V

of a compact Lie group

G

. We prove that the closed isotropy strata are real algebraic manifolds and that for each isotropy subgroup

H

, every rational invariant of the induced representation

(V^{H}, N (H))

can be obtained as the restriction of a global invariant of

(V, G)

, where

N (H)

is the normalizer of

H

and

V^{H}

is the fixed point set of

H

.

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