Abstract: | Let be a complex, connected, reductive algebraic group. In this paper we show analogues of the computations by Borho and MacPherson of the invariants and anti-invariants of the cohomology of the Springer fibres of the cone of nilpotent elements, , of for the Steinberg variety of triples. Using a general specialization argument we show that for a parabolic subgroup of the space of -invariants and the space of -anti-invariants of are isomorphic to the top Borel-Moore homology groups of certain generalized Steinberg varieties introduced by Douglass and Röhrle (2004). The rational group algebra of the Weyl group of is isomorphic to the opposite of the top Borel-Moore homology of , where . Suppose is a parabolic subgroup of . We show that the space of -invariants of is , where is the idempotent in the group algebra of affording the trivial representation of and is defined similarly. We also show that the space of -anti-invariants of is , where is the idempotent in the group algebra of affording the sign representation of and is defined similarly. |