Involutions of reductive Lie algebras in positive characteristic

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2006.07.002zbMATH Open1173.17019arXivmath/0501334OpenAlexW1991325240MaRDI QIDQ875245FDOQ875245

Authors: Paul Levy 

Publication date: 13 April 2007

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a reductive group over a field $k$ of characteristic $eq2$, let $mathfrakg=Lie(G)$, let $heta$ be an involutive automorphism of $G$ and let $mathfrakg=mathfrakkoplusmathfrakp$ be the associated symmetric space decomposition. For the case of a ground field of characteristic zero, the action of the isotropy group $G^{h}eta$ on $mathfrakp$ is well-understood, since the well-known paper of Kostant and Rallis. Such a theory in positive characteristic has proved more difficult to develop. Here we use an approach based on some tools from geometric invariant theory to establish corresponding results in (good) positive characteristic. Among other results, we prove that the variety $calN$ of nilpotent elements of $mathfrakp$ has a dense open orbit, and that the same is true for every fibre of the quotient map $mathfrakpomathfrakp/G^{h}eta$. However, we show that the corresponding statement for $G$, conjectured by Richardson, is not true. We provide a new, (mostly) calculation-free proof of the number of irreducible components of $calN$, extending a result of Sekiguchi for $k=mathbbC$. Finally, we apply a theorem of Skryabin to describe the infinitesimal invariants $k[mathfrakp{]}^{mathfrakk}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501334

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebrasGeometric invariant theoryRing of invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular Lie (super)algebras (17B50) Other algebraic groups (geometric aspects) (14L40)

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