Unipotent variety in the group compactification.

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2005.04.004MaRDI QIDQ2497317zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xuhua He

Publication date 4 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410199

zbMATH Keywords

connected simple algebraic groupsgroup compactificationsSteinberg fibersunipotent varietieswonderful compactifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: The unipotent variety of a reductive algebraic group $G$ plays an important role in the representation theory. In this paper, we will consider the closure $$ of the unipotent variety in the De Concini-Procesi compactification $$ of a connected simple algebraic group $G$. We will prove that $$ is a union of some $G$-stable pieces introduced by Lusztig in cite{L4}. This was first conjectured by Lusztig. We will also give an explicit description of $$. It turns out that similar results hold for the closure of any Steinberg fiber in $$.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a connected simple (hence adjoint) algebraic group with wonderful compactification \(\overline G\). The main result of this paper is the explicit determination of the closure \(\overline U\) in \(\overline G\) of the unipotent radical \(U\) of a Borel subgroup \(B\). It confirms a conjecture of Lusztig who expects to use it in his theory of ``parabolic character sheaves on \(\overline G\). Starting point is the description by Springer of \(B\times B\)-orbits in \(\overline G\). One also needs a study of Coxeter elements in Weyl groups. Some case by case combinatorics gives a lower bound on \(\overline U\). One shows this lower bound equals an upper bound. The unipotent radical is one of the Steinberg fibers. It turns out that the boundary \(\overline F-F\) is the same for every Steinberg fiber \(F\).

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