The Bruhat order on abelian ideals of Borel subalgebras

Abstract

Let G be a quasi simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field k whose characteristic is not very bad for G, and let B be a Borel subgroup of G with Lie algebra b. Given a B-stable abelian subalgebra a of the nilradical of b, we parametrize the B-orbits in a and we describe their closure relations.

v3: 18 pages. Minor revision. To appear in Trasactions of the AMS