Involutions of reductive Lie algebras in positive characteristic

Details Involutions of reductive Lie algebras in positive characteristic Involutions of reductive Lie algebras in positive characteristic

2005-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/math/0501334v2

Mathematics

Rings and Algebras

41 pages, uses diagrams.sty. One change of note: correction to the calculation of number of irreducible components of ${\cal N

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Let $G$ be a reductive group over a field $k$ of characteristic $\neq 2$, let ${\mathfrak g}=\Lie(G)$, let $\theta$ be an involutive automorphism of $G$ and let ${\mathfrak g}={\mathfrak k}\oplus{\mathfrak p}$ be the associated symmetric space decomposition. For the case of a ground field of characteristic zero, the action of the isotropy group $G^\theta$ on ${\mathfrak p}$ 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 ${\cal N}$ of nilpotent elements of ${\mathfrak p}$ has a dense open orbit, and that the same is true for every fibre of the quotient map ${\mathfrak p}\to{\mathfrak p}/G^\theta$. 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 ${\cal N}$, extending a result of Sekiguchi for $k={\mathbb C}$. Finally, we apply a theorem of Skryabin to describe the infinitesimal invariants $k[{\mathfrak p}]^{\mathfrak k}$.

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