On Gel'fand-Graev characters of reductive groups with disconnected centre.
We show, with a counterexample, that proposition 3 in [2], as it stands, is not correct; we prove however that by changing the hypothesis the thesis of the proposition remains still valid.
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...
We consider a smooth projective variety on which a simple algebraic group acts with an open orbit. We discuss a theorem of Brion-Luna-Vust in order to relate the action of with the induced action of on the normal bundle of a closed orbit of the action. We get effective results in case and .