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On spherical nilpotent orbits and beyond

Dmitri I. Panyushev (1999)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

We continue investigations that are concerned with the complexity of nilpotent orbits in semisimple Lie algebras. We give a characterization of the spherical nilpotent orbits in terms of minimal Levi subalgebras intersecting them. This provides a kind of canonical form for such orbits. A description minimal non-spherical orbits in all simple Lie algebras is obtained. The theory developed for the adjoint representation is then extended to Vinberg’s θ -groups. This yields a description of spherical...

On tangent cones to Schubert varieties in type E

Mikhail V. Ignatyev, Aleksandr A. Shevchenko (2020)

Communications in Mathematics

We consider tangent cones to Schubert subvarieties of the flag variety G / B , where B is a Borel subgroup of a reductive complex algebraic group G of type E 6 , E 7 or E 8 . We prove that if w 1 and w 2 form a good pair of involutions in the Weyl group W of G then the tangent cones C w 1 and C w 2 to the corresponding Schubert subvarieties of G / B do not coincide as subschemes of the tangent space to G / B at the neutral point.

On the adjoint map of homotopy abelian DG-Lie algebras

Donatella Iacono, Marco Manetti (2019)

Archivum Mathematicum

We prove that a differential graded Lie algebra is homotopy abelian if its adjoint map into its cochain complex of derivations is trivial in cohomology. The converse is true for cofibrant algebras and false in general.

On the behaviour of Jordan-algebra norms on associative algebras

Miguel Cabrera Garcia, Antonio Moreno Galindo, Angel Rodríguez Palacios (1995)

Studia Mathematica

We prove that for a suitable associative (real or complex) algebra which has many nice algebraic properties, such as being simple and having minimal idempotents, a norm can be given such that the mapping (a,b) ↦ ab + ba is jointly continuous while (a,b) ↦ ab is only separately continuous. We also prove that such a pathology cannot arise for associative simple algebras with a unit. Similar results are obtained for the so-called "norm extension problem", and the relationship between these results...

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