Dimension of a minimal nilpotent orbit
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Abstract:
We show that the dimension of the minimal nilpotent coadjoint orbit for a complex simple Lie algebra is equal to twice the dual Coxeter number minus two.References
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Additional Information
- Weiqiang Wang
- Affiliation: Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik, 53225 Bonn, Germany
- Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
- MR Author ID: 339426
- Email: wqwang@math.yale.edu
- Received by editor(s): July 7, 1997
- Communicated by: Roe Goodman
- © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 935-936
- MSC (1991): Primary 22E10; Secondary 17B20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04946-1
- MathSciNet review: 1610801