Springer correspondence for disconnected groups

The Springer correspondence is a map from the set of unipotent conjugacy classes of a reductive algebraic group to the set of irreducible complex characters of the Weyl group. Here, we determine this map explicitly in the case of disconnected classical algebraic groups. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): Primary 20G05; Secondary 20C33.     

On spherical twisted conjugacy classes

Let G be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of good odd characteristic, and let ?? be an automorphism of G arising from an involution of its Dynkin diagram. We show that the spherical ??-twisted conjugacy classes are precisely those intersecting only Bruhat cells corresponding to twisted involutions in the Weyl group. We show how the analogue of this statement fails in the triality case. As a byproduct, we obtain a dimension formula for spherical twisted conjugacy classes that was originally obtained by J.-H. Lu in characteristic zero.     

Affine weyl groups and conjugacy classes in Weyl groups

We define a map from an affine Weyl group to the set of conjugacy classes of an ordinary Weyl group. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation.     

Spherical orbits and representations of Uε(g)

Let U_ε(g) be the simply connected quantized enveloping algebra at roots of one associated to a finite dimensional complex simple Lie algebra g. The De Concini-Kac-Procesi conjecture on the dimension of the irreducible representations of U_ε(g) is proved for the representations corresponding to the spherical conjugacy classes of the simply connected algebraic group G with Lie algebra g. We achieve this result by means of a new characterization of the spherical conjugacy classes of G in terms of elements of the Weyl group.     

Minimal reduction type and the Kazhdan–Lusztig map

We introduce the notion of minimal reduction type of an affine Springer fiber, and use it to define a map from the set of conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to the set of nilpotent orbits. We show that this map is the same as the one defined by Lusztig in Lfromto, (2011) and that the Kazhdan–Lusztig map in Kazhdan and Lusztig, (1998) is a section of our map. This settles several conjectures in the literature. For classical groups, we prove more refined results by introducing and studying the “skeleta” of affine Springer fibers.     

Weyl Groups,Deformations of Linkage Classes,and Character Degrees For Chevalley Groups

With a Weyl group W and a positive integer p are associated p-linkage classes of weights [4,13]. Small deformations of such classes by elements of W are introduced here. These lead in turn to certain polynomials in p with highest term p^m, m = number of positive roots (one polynomial for each conjugacy class of W), which are written down explicitly for types A₁, A₂, B₂. These polynomials give (for each prime p) the degrees of the various large series of irreducible characters of the corresponding Chevalley group over the field of p elements. Indeed, the formal behavior of weights appears to reflect the actual behavior of the characters under reduction modulo p.     

Fixed point varieties on affine flag manifolds

We study the space of Iwahori subalgebras containing a given element of a semisimple Lie algebra over C((ɛ)). We also define and study a map from nilpotent orbits in a semisimple Lie algebra over C to conjugacy classes in the Weyl group. Both authors were supported in part by the National Science Foundation.     

Prehomogeneous vector spaces and field extensions

Summary Letk be an infinite field of characteristic not equal to 2, 3, 5. In this paper, we construct a natural map from the set of orbits of certain prehomogeneous vector spaces to the set of isomorphism classes of Galois extensions ofk which are splitting fields of equations of certain degrees, and prove that the inverse image of this map corresponds bijectively with conjugacy classes of Galois homomorphisms.Oblatum 24-I-1992 & 23-IV-1992Both authors are supported by NSF Grant DMS-8803085, DMS-9101091; The first author was partially supported by NSA grant MDA904-91-H-0041     

Rigidity of measurable structure for \mathbb Z^d-actions by automorphisms of a torus

We show that for certain classes of actions of , by automorphisms of the torus any measurable conjugacy has to be affine, hence measurable conjugacy implies algebraic conjugacy; similarly any measurable factor is algebraic, and algebraic and affine centralizers provide invariants of measurable conjugacy. Using the algebraic machinery of dual modules and information about class numbers of algebraic number fields we construct various examples of -actions by Bernoulli automorphisms whose measurable orbit structure is rigid, including actions which are weakly isomorphic but not isomorphic. We show that the structure of the centralizer for these actions may or may not serve as a distinguishing measure-theoretic invariant. Received: March 12, 2002     

Conjugacy classes of non-connected semisimple algebraic groups

Consider a non-connected algebraic group G = G ⋉ Γ with semisimple identity component G and a subgroup of its diagram automorphisms Γ. The identity component G acts on a fixed exterior component Gτ, id ≠ τ ∈ Γ by conjugation. In this paper we will describe the conjugacy classes and the invariant theory of this action. Let T be a τ -stable maximal torus of G and its Weyl group W. Then the quotient space Gτ//G is isomorphic to (T/(1 − τ )(T))/W^τ. Furthermore, exploiting the Jordan decomposition, the reduced fibres of this quotient map are naturally associated bundles over semisimple G-orbits. Similar to Steinberg's connected and simply connected case [22] and under additional assumptions on the fundamental group of G, a global section to this quotient map exists. The material presented here is a synopsis of the Ph.D thesis of the author, cf. [15].     

On the geometry of conjugacy classes in classical groups

Summary We study closures of conjugacy classes in the Lie algebras of the orthogonal and symplectic groups and determine which ones are normal varieties. Furthermore we give a complete classification of the minimal singularities which arise in this context, i.e. the singularities which occur in the open classes in the boundary of a given conjugacy class. In contrast to the results for the general linear group ([KP1], [KP2]) there are classes with non normal closure; they are branched in a class of codimension two and give rise to normal minimal singularities. The methods used are (classical) invariant theory and algebraic geometry. Supported in part by the SFB Theoretische Mathematik, University of Bonn, and by the University of Hamburg     

On the conjugacy classes in maximal unipotent subgroups of simple algebraic groups

Let G be a simple algebraic group over the algebraically closed field k of characteristic p ≥ 0. Assume p is zero or good for G. Let B be a Borel subgroup of G; we write U for the unipotent radical of B and u for the Lie algebra of U. Using relative Springer isomorphisms} we analyze the adjoint orbits of U in u. In particular, we show that an adjoint orbit of U in u contains a unique so-called minimal representative. In case p > 0, assume G is defined and split over the finite field of p elements F_p. Let q be a power of p and let G(q) be the finite group of F_q-rational points of G. Let F be the Frobenius morphism such that G(q) = G^F. Assume B is F-stable, so that U is also F-stable and U(q) is a Sylow p-subgroup of G(q). We show that the conjugacy classes of U(q) are in correspondence with the F-stable adjoint orbits of U in u. This allows us to deduce results about the conjugacy classes of U(q).     

Closed Conjugacy Classes,Closed Orbits and Structure of Algebraic Groups

In this paper we prove that if an affine algebraic group (in characteristic zero) has all its conjugacy classes closed, then it is nilpotent. A classical result (called sometimes the Kostant-Rosenlicht Theorem) guarantees that if an affine algebraic group G is unipotent, then all its orbits on affine varieties are closed. We prove the converse of that theorem in arbitrary characteristics.     

Coxter群中二阶元的判定及其在仿射Weyl群中的应用

本文首先给出Coxter群中二阶元的判定方法，应用到E6型有限wey1群及A21^(1)型仿射Wey1群，给出了其二阶元的共轭标准形与共轭类数．     

Remarks on the length of conjugacy classes of finite groups

Let G be a finite group. The question of how certain arithmetical conditions on the lengths of the conjugacy classes of G influence the group structure has been studied by several authors. In this paper we study restrictions on the structure of a finite group in which the lengths of conjugacy classes are not divisible by p ² for some prime p. We generalise and provide simplified proofs for some earlier results.     

On algebraic automorphisms and their rational invariants

Let X be an affine irreducible variety over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic zero. Given an automorphism Φ, we denote by k(X)^Φ its field of invariants, i.e., the set of rational functions f on X such that f o Φ = f. Let n(Φ) be the transcendence degree of k(X)^Φ over k. In this paper we study the class of automorphisms Φ of X for which n(Φ) = dim X - 1. More precisely, we show that under some conditions on X, every such automorphism is of the form Φ = ϕ_g, where ϕ is an algebraic action of a linear algebraic group G of dimension 1 on X, and where g belongs to G. As an application, we determine the conjugacy classes of automorphisms of the plane for which n(Φ) = 1.     

Trace Equivalence in SU(2, 1)

In this paper it is shown that one can choose an arbitrarily large number of inconjugate elements of the group Z/2Z*Z/2Z*Z/2Z which have the property that, under all representations of the group in SU(2,1) as a discrete complex hyperbolic ideal triangle group, the elements are hyperbolic and correspond to closed geodesics of equal length on the associated complex hyperbolic surface. This is an analogue of the geometric fact that the multiplicity of the length spectrum of a Riemann surface is never bounded or the equivalent algebraic phenomenon that an arbitrarily large number of conjugacy classes in a free group can have the same trace under all representations in SL(2,R ).     

Asymptotics of characters of symmetric groups, genus expansion and free probability

The convolution of indicators of two conjugacy classes on the symmetric group S_q is usually a complicated linear combination of indicators of many conjugacy classes. Similarly, a product of the moments of the Jucys-Murphy element involves many conjugacy classes with complicated coefficients. In this article, we consider a combinatorial setup which allows us to manipulate such products easily: to each conjugacy class we associate a two-dimensional surface and the asymptotic properties of the conjugacy class depend only on the genus of the resulting surface. This construction closely resembles the genus expansion from the random matrix theory. As the main application we study irreducible representations of symmetric groups S_q for large q. We find the asymptotic behavior of characters when the corresponding Young diagram rescaled by a factor q^-1/2 converge to a prescribed shape. The character formula (known as the Kerov polynomial) can be viewed as a power series, the terms of which correspond to two-dimensional surfaces with prescribed genus and we compute explicitly the first two terms, thus we prove a conjecture of Biane.     

A Unifying Approach to Weyl Type Theorems for Banach Space Operators

Weyl type theorems have been proved for a considerably large number of classes of operators. In this paper, by introducing the class of quasi totally hereditarily normaloid operators, we obtain a theoretical and general framework from which Weyl type theorems may be promptly established for many of these classes of operators. This framework also entails Weyl type theorems for perturbations f(T + K), where K is algebraic and commutes with T, and f is an analytic function, defined on an open neighborhood of the spectrum of T + K, such that f is non constant on each of the components of its domain.