On normal abelian subgroups in parabolic groups
Let be a reductive algebraic group, a parabolic subgroup of with unipotent radical , and a closed connected subgroup of which is normalized by . We show that acts on with finitely many orbits provided is abelian. This generalizes a well-known finiteness result, namely the case when is central in . We also obtain an analogous result for the adjoint action of on invariant linear subspaces of the Lie algebra of which are abelian Lie algebras. Finally, we discuss a connection...