On Border Basis and Gröbner Basis Schemes.
In this paper we relate the deformation method in invariant theory to spherical subgroups. Let be a reductive group, an affine -variety and a spherical subgroup. We show that whenever is affine and its semigroup of weights is saturated, the algebra of -invariant regular functions on has a -invariant filtration such that the associated graded algebra is the algebra of regular functions of some explicit horospherical subgroup of . The deformation method in its usual form, as developed...