Higher secant varieties of the minimal adjoint orbit

Details Higher secant varieties of the minimal adjoint orbit Higher secant varieties of the minimal adjoint orbit

2003-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/math/0312370v1

Journal of Algebra (2004), 280/2, 743-761

Mathematics

Representation Theory

17 pages

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We try to write (generic) elements of classical simple Lie algebras as sums of as few elements of the orbit C of long root vectors as possible. If the Lie algebra in question is sl_n or sp_n, then C consists of all rank 1 matrices in the Lie algebra, and an element of rank k is the sum of k elements of C. If, on the other hand, the Lie algebra is o_n, then C consists of all rank 2 matrices with square zero, and the situation is much more complicated. We explicitly describe, in this case as well, the closure of the set of all sums of k elements of C, also known as the (k-1)st secant variety of C.

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