By Bram Broer (auth.), Jean-Luc Brylinski, Ranee Brylinski, Victor Guillemin, Victor Kac (eds.)

This quantity, devoted to Bertram Kostant at the get together of his 65th birthday, is a set of twenty-two invited papers through top mathematicians operating in Lie concept, geometry, algebra, and mathematical physics. Kostant’s basic paintings in most of these components has supplied deep new insights and connections, and has created new fields of analysis. The papers accumulated right here current unique examine articles in addition to expository papers, extensively reflecting the diversity of Kostant’s work.

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This proves (iii). The implication (3) =? (1) in (i) is a corollary and (1) =? (2) is obvious. To show (2) =? (3) we again use induction. If).. ) = 0 for i ~ 1. Take).. ) = 0, and suppose that the implication (2) =? (3) is correct for every Jl such that Jl+ < ).. + and for every Jl such that Jl > ).. +. Let a be simple as above. 3 there is an injection Hl().. ), so Hl().. + a) = O. -a) = o. It then follows by (iii) that H~()") ~ H~(s)" - a) = O. ) = O. ) ~ HO(s).. - a). *. ) = o. This finishes the proof of (i) Now suppose Cht(A) = 1 and a as above with n ~ 1.

Brylinski, V. Guillemin, V. Kac, PM 123, Birkhauser, 1994. 76. g. , to appear Books Bl A Course in the Mathematics of General Relativity, ARK Publications, 1988 Normality of Some Nilpotent Varieties and Cohomology of Line Bundles on the Cotangent Bundle of the Flag Variety Bram Broer Dedicated to Bert Kostant on his 65th birthday Introduction Let G be a connected, complex reductive group and B, a Borel subgroup. The homogeneous space G / B is called the (full) flag variety of G; for G Ln this is the ordinary variety of flags of subspaces in The properties of this variety have many implications in the study of reductive groups and their representations.

Then ¢ is birational onto its image Gn. This image Gn is an affine Gorenstein nilpotent variety with rational singularities, which implies that it is normal. 16 Bram Broer Proof. Write n for the nilpotent radical of p and (p/b)* =: Cal 61 ... 61 Co"' where by assumption the occurring roots are short and mutually orthogonal; they are all simple. The direct sum of line bundles on X = T*G / B has a natural linear section with zero scheme t : Z := G x B (O/p)* C X. cx(p/b)[-nj_ ... cx(p/b)[-lj- Ox - t*Oz - 0, (3) of t*Oz, which preserves grading and is G-equivariant.

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