Intersections of two quadrics and Chatelet surfaces. II.
Introduction to actions of algebraic groups
These notes present some fundamental results and examples in the theory of algebraic group actions, with special attention to the topics of geometric invariant theory and of spherical varieties. Their goal is to provide a self-contained introduction to more advanced lectures.
Invariant theory for linear algebraic groups II (char k arbitrary)
Invariant theory for and the rationality of
Invariants, torsion indices and oriented cohomology of complete flags
Let be a split semisimple linear algebraic group over a field and let be a split maximal torus of . Let be an oriented cohomology (algebraic cobordism, connective -theory, Chow groups, Grothendieck’s , etc.) with formal group law . We construct a ring from and the characters of , that we call a formal group ring, and we define a characteristic ring morphism from this formal group ring to where is the variety of Borel subgroups of . Our main result says that when the torsion index...