Local properties of algebraic group actions. (English) Zbl 0722.14032

Knop, Friedrich; Kraft, Hanspeter; Luna, Domingo; Vust, Thierry

Algebraische Transformationsgruppen und Invariantentheorie, DMV Semin. 13, 63-75 (1989).

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0682.00008.]
Let G be a connected linear algebraic group and X be a normal G-variety over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. The authors give a new proof of the following result of Sumihiro:
Let \(Y\subset X\) be an orbit in X. There is a finite-dimensional rational representation \(G\to GL(V)\) and a G-stable open neighborhood U of Y in X which is G-equivariantly isomorphic to a G-stable locally closed subvariety of the projective space P(V).
The main technical ingredients are G-linearizations of line bundles and the study of the Picard group of a linear algebraic group.

Reviewer: W.Lück (Lexington)

MSC:

14L30	Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients)
20G05	Representation theory for linear algebraic groups
14C22	Picard groups

Keywords:

Picard group of a linear algebraic group

Citations:

Zbl 0682.00008