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Spherical subgroups in simple algebraic groups

Part of: Algebraic groups Linear algebraic groups and related topics Special varieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2015

Friedrich Knop  and
Gerhard Röhrle
Friedrich Knop
Affiliation:
Department Mathematik, Emmy-Noether-Zentrum, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Cauerstrasse 11, 91058 Erlangen, Germany email friedrich.knop@fau.de
Gerhard Röhrle
Affiliation:
Fakultät für Mathematik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany email gerhard.roehrle@rub.de
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Abstract

Let $G$ be a simple algebraic group. A closed subgroup $H$ of $G$ is said to be spherical if it has a dense orbit on the flag variety $G/B$ of $G$. Reductive spherical subgroups of simple Lie groups were classified by Krämer in 1979. In 1997, Brundan showed that each example from Krämer’s list also gives rise to a spherical subgroup in the corresponding simple algebraic group in any positive characteristic. Nevertheless, up to now there has been no classification of all such instances in positive characteristic. The goal of this paper is to complete this classification. It turns out that there is only one additional instance (up to isogeny) in characteristic 2 which has no counterpart in Krämer’s classification. As one of our key tools, we prove a general deformation result for subgroup schemes that allows us to deduce the sphericality of subgroups in positive characteristic from the same property for subgroups in characteristic zero.

Keywords

spherical subgroupsymmetric subgroupspherical homogeneous variety

MSC classification

Primary: 20G15: Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields 14M27: Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties 14M17: Homogeneous spaces and generalizations
Secondary: 20G05: Representation theory 14L30: Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients)

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Compositio Mathematica , Volume 151 , Issue 7 , July 2015 , pp. 1288 - 1308
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© The Authors 2015 

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