Adjoint representation of and del Pezzo surfaces of degree
Let be a del Pezzo surface of degree , and let be the simple Lie group of type . We construct a locally closed embedding of a universal torsor over into the -orbit of the highest weight vector of the adjoint representation. This embedding is equivariant with respect to the action of the Néron-Severi torus of identified with a maximal torus of extended by the group of scalars. Moreover, the -invariant hyperplane sections of the torsor defined by the roots of are the inverse images...