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Inductive freeness of Ziegler’s canonical multiderivations for reflection arrangements
Let A be a free hyperplane arrangement. In 1989, Ziegler showed that the restriction A 00 of A to any hyperplane endowed with the natural multiplicity is then a free multiarrangement. We initiate a study of the stronger freeness property of inductive freeness for these canonical free multiarrangements and investigate them for the underlying class of re ection arrangements. More precisely, let A = A (W) be the re ection arrangement of a complex re ection group W. By work of Terao, each such re ection arrangement is free. Thus so is Ziegler's canonical multiplicity on the restriction A 00 of A to a hyperplane. We show that the latter is inductively free as a multiarrangement if and only if A 00 itself is inductively free.
Cocharacter-Closure and the Rational Hilbert-Mumford Theorem
For a field k, let G be a reductive k-group and V an affine k-variety on which G acts. Using the notion of cocharacter-closed G(k)-orbits in V , we prove a rational version of the celebrated Hilbert-Mumford Theorem from geometric invariant theory. We initiate a study of applications stemming from this rationality tool. A number of examples are discussed to illustrate the concept of cocharacter-closure and to highlight how it differs from the usual Zariski-closure.
Freeness of multi-reflection arrangements via primitive vector fields
In 2002, Terao showed that every reection multi-arrangement of a real reection group with constant multiplicity is free by providing a basis of the module of derivations. We rst generalize Terao's result to multi-arrangements stemming from well-generated unitary reection groups, where the multiplicity of a hyperplane depends on the order of its stabilizer. Here the exponents depend on the exponents of the dual reection representation. We then extend our results further to all imprimitive irreducible unitary reection groups. In this case the exponents turn out to depend on the exponents of a certain Galois twist of the dual reection representation that comes from a Beynon-Lusztig type semi-palindromicity of the fake degrees.
On unipotent radicals of pseudo-reductive groups
We establish some results on the structure of the geometric unipotent radicals of pseudo-reductive k-groups. In particular, let k′ be a purely inseparable field extension of k of degree pe and let G denote the Weil restriction of scalars Rk′/k(G′) of a reductive k′-group G′. We prove that the unipotent radical Ru(Gk¯) of the extension of scalars of G to the algebraic closure k¯ of k has exponent e. Our main theorem is to give bounds on the nilpotency class of geometric unipotent radicals of standard pseudo-reductive groups, which are sharp in many cases.
Cocharacter-closure and spherical buildings
Let k be a field, let G be a reductive k-group and V an affine k-variety on which G acts. In this note we continue our study of the notion of cocharacter-closed G(k)-orbits in V . In earlier work we used a rationality condition on the point stabilizer of a G-orbit to prove Galois ascent/descent and Levi ascent/descent results concerning cocharacter-closure for the corresponding G(k)-orbit in V . In the present paper we employ building-theoretic techniques to derive analogous results.