Spherical roots of spherical varieties

DOI10.5802/AIF.2919MaRDI QIDQ486850zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Friedrich Knop

Publication date 16 January 2015

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2466

zbMATH Keywords

fields of positive characteristichomogeneous varietiesspherical rootsspherical varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive characteristic ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G17) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27)

Abstract: Brion proved that the valuation cone of a complex spherical variety is a fundamental domain for a finite reflection group, called the little Weyl group. The principal goal of this paper is to generalize this fundamental theorem to fields of characteristic unequal to 2. We also prove a weaker version which holds in characteristic 2, as well. Our main tool is a generalization of Akhiezer's classification of spherical rank-1-varieties.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a connected reductive group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p\). A spherical variety is a \(G\)-variety with an open orbit for a Borel subgroup \(B\) of \(G\). The rank of a spherical variety \(X\) is the rank of the lattice of weights of \(B\)-semiinvariant rational functions on \(X\). In characteristic zero, the classification of spherical varieties of rank one is due to \textit{D. N. Akhiezer} [Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 1, No. 1, 49--78 (1983; Zbl 0537.14033)], see also [\textit{M. Brion}, CMS Conf. Proc. 10, 31--41 (1989; Zbl 0702.20029)]. Here the author obtains such a classification in arbitrary characteristic. He then proves that, if \(p\neq2\), the so-called valuation cone of a spherical variety \(X\) is the fundamental domain of a finite reflection group, called little Weyl group of \(X\), generalizing a well-known result of \textit{M. Brion} [J. Algebra 134, No. 1, 115--143 (1990; Zbl 0729.14038)] in characteristic zero. If \(p=2\), this is no longer true, but it is proved that the group generated by the reflections with respect to the facets of the valuation cone is still finite.

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