Resolution of singularities of null cones

2000/05/08 by Weiqiang Wang
Mathematics · #math.AG #msc:14L35

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published as Canad. Math. Bull. 44 (2001), 491--503. · 13 pages, to appear in Canadian Math. Bulletin

arxiv created 2000/05/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We give canonical resolutions of singularities of several cone varieties arising from invariant theory. We establish a connection between our resolutions and resolutions of singularities of closure of conjugacy classes in classical Lie algebras.

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