Semistable locus of a group compactification
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- by Xuhua He and Jason Starr
- Represent. Theory 15 (2011), 574-583
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1088-4165-2011-00404-0
- Published electronically: August 2, 2011
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Abstract:
In this paper, we consider the diagonal action of a connected semisimple group of adjoint type on its wonderful compactification. We show that the semistable locus is a union of the $G$-stable pieces and we calculate the geometric quotient.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Xuhua He
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- Email: maxhhe@ust.hk
- Jason Starr
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794
- Email: jstarr@math.sunysb.edu
- Received by editor(s): January 28, 2009
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 24, 2011
- Published electronically: August 2, 2011
- Additional Notes: The first author was partially supported by (USA) NSF grant DMS 0700589 (HK) RGC grant DAG08/09.SC03 and RGC grant 601409.
The second author was partially supported by an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship, NSF grant DMS-0553921 and NSF grant DMS-0758521. - © Copyright 2011
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Represent. Theory 15 (2011), 574-583
- MSC (2010): Primary 14L30, 14L24
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1088-4165-2011-00404-0
- MathSciNet review: 2833468