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Ampleness and connectedness in complex $G/P$
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This paper determines the "ampleness" of the tangent bundle of the complex homogeneous space, $G/P$, by calculating the maximal fibre dimension of the desingularization of a nilpotent subvariety of the Lie algebra of $G$.
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  • © Copyright 1982 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 274 (1982), 361-373
  • MSC: Primary 32M10; Secondary 14M17
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1982-0670938-2
  • MathSciNet review: 670938