Spherical conjugacy classes and Bruhat decomposition

2008/08/13 by Carnovale, Giovanna
#FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR) #Representation Theory (math.RT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0808.1818

Abstract

Let G be a connected, reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero or good and odd. We characterize the spherical conjugacy classes of G as those intersecting only Bruhat cells corresponding to involutions in the Weyl group of G.

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