TANIGUCHI Kenji
   Department   Aoyama Gakuin University  Department of Mathematical Sciences, College of Science and Engineering
   Position   Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2014/03
Type Academic Journal
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Closed orbits on partial flag varieties and double flag variety of finite type
Contribution Type Collaboration
Volume, Issue, Page pp.113-119
Author and coauthor Kensuke Kondo, Kyo Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Ochiai
Details Let G be a connected reductive algebraic group over C. We denote by K=(Gθ)0 the identity component of the fixed points of an involutive automorphism θ of G. The pair (G,K) is called a symmetric pair. Let Q be a parabolic subgroup of K. We want to find a pair of parabolic subgroups P1, P2 of G such that (i) P1 ∩ P2 = Q and (ii) P1 P2 is dense in G. The main result of this article states that, for a simple group G, we can find such a pair if and only if (G,K) is a Hermitian symmetric pair. The conditions (i) and (ii) imply that the K-orbit through the origin (eP1,eP2) of G/P1 × G/P2 is closed and it generates an open dense G-orbit on the product of partial flag variety. From this point of view, we also give a complete classification of closed orbits on G/P1 × G/P2.