Generic stabilizers for simple algebraic groups acting on orthogonal and symplectic Grassmannians

Rizzoli, Aluna 

Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Tome 13 (2025) no. 1, p. e8

Résumé

We consider faithful actions of simple algebraic groups on self-dual irreducible modules and on the associated varieties of totally singular subspaces, under the assumption that the dimension of the group is at least as large as the dimension of the variety. We prove that in all but a finite list of cases, there is a dense open subset where the stabilizer of any point is conjugate to a fixed subgroup, called the generic stabilizer. We use these results to determine whether there exists a dense orbit. This in turn lets us complete the answer to the problem of determining all pairs of maximal connected subgroups of a classical group with a dense double coset.

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DOI : 10.1017/fms.2024.154

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