The Closure Ordering of Nilpotent Orbits of the Complex Symmetric Pair (SOp+q , SOp × SOq )

Ðoković, Dragomir Ž. ; Litvinov, Michael

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 55 (2003) no. 6, pp. 1155-1190

Résumé

The main problem that is solved in this paper has the following simple formulation (which is not used in its solution). The group $K={{O}_{p}}\left( C \right)\times {{O}_{q}}\left( C \right)$ acts on the space ${{M}_{p,\,q}}\,\text{of}\,p\,\times \,q$ complex matrices by $\left( a,b \right)\cdot x=ax{{b}^{-1}}$ , and so does its identity component ${{K}^{0}}=\text{S}{{\text{O}}_{p}}\left( \text{C} \right)\times \text{S}{{\text{O}}_{\text{q}}}\left( \text{C} \right)$ . A $K$ -orbit (or ${{K}^{0}}$ -orbit) in ${{M}_{p,q}}$ is said to be nilpotent if its closure contains the zero matrix. The closure, $\bar{\mathcal{O}}$ , of a nilpotent $K$ -orbit (resp. ${{K}^{0}}$ -orbit) $\mathcal{O}$ in ${{M}_{p,q}}$ is a union of $\mathcal{O}$ and some nilpotent $K$ -orbits (resp. ${{K}^{0}}$ -orbits) of smaller dimensions. The description of the closure of nilpotent $K$ -orbits has been known for some time, but not so for the nilpotent ${{K}^{0}}$ -orbits. A conjecture describing the closure of nilpotent ${{K}^{0}}$ -orbits was proposed in $[11]$ and verified when $\min \left( p,\,q \right)\le 7$ . In this paper we prove the conjecture. The proof is based on a study of two prehomogeneous vector spaces attached to $\mathcal{O}$ and determination of the basic relative invariants of these spaces.The above problem is equivalent to the problem of describing the closure of nilpotent orbits in the real Lie algebra $\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{o}\left( p,\,q \right)$ under the adjoint action of the identity component of the real orthogonal group $\text{O}\left( p,\,q \right)$ .

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-2003-046-3

Mots-clés : 17B20, 17B45, 22E47, orthogonal, ab-diagrams, prehomogeneous vector spaces, relative invariants

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