Homology of the Steinberg variety and Weyl group coinvariants

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Authors J. Matthew Douglass, Gerhard Röhrle

Publication date 27 January 2010

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1717, https://eudml.org/doc/232064, http://www.emis.de/journals/DMJDMV/vol-14/13.html

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zbMATH Keywords

Borel-Moore homologycoinvariant algebraSteinberg varietyWeyl group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

Abstract: Let G be a complex, connected, reductive algebraic group with Weyl group W and Steinberg variety Z. We show that the graded Borel-Moore homology of Z is isomorphic to the smash product of the coinvariant algebra of W and the group algebra of W.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a complex, connected, reductive algebraic group with Weyl group \(W\) and Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\). The Steinberg variety consists of triples \((x,B',B)\) with \(B'\), \(B\) Borel subgroups and \(x\) a nilpotent element in the intersection of \(\text{Lie}(B')\) with \(\text{Lie}(B')\). Let the Cartan subalgebra \(\mathfrak h\) of \(\mathfrak g\) be invariant under \(W\). The coinvariant algebra of \(W\) is the quotient of \(\mathbb Q[\mathfrak h^*]\) by the ideal generated by the homogeneous \(W\) invariants of positive degree. The main result is that the graded Borel-Moore homology of the Steinberg variety is isomorphic to the smash product of the coinvariant algebra of \(W\) and the group algebra of \(W\). Another proof, relying on deeper results than those employed here, has been given by \textit{N. Kwon} [Mich. Math. J. 58, No. 3, 771--781 (2009; Zbl 1196.14039)].

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