Closures of conjugacy classes of matrices are normal. (English) Zbl 0434.14026

Kraft, Hanspeter; Procesi, Claudio

Invent. Math. 53, 227-247 (1979).

MSC:

14L30	Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients)
14M05	Varieties defined by ring conditions (factorial, Cohen-Macaulay, seminormal)
14M10	Complete intersections
14B05	Singularities in algebraic geometry
20G05	Representation theory for linear algebraic groups
15A21	Canonical forms, reductions, classification

Keywords:

normality of orbit; rational singularity; Cohen-Macaulay

Citations:

Zbl 0124.268

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