Spherical conjugacy classes and Bruhat decomposition
Abstract
Description
Let G be a connected, reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero or good and odd. We characterize the spherical conjugacy classes of G as those intersecting only Bruhat cells corresponding to involutions in the Weyl group of G.
Final version, to appear in Ann. Inst. Fourier, Grenoble
Final version, to appear in Ann. Inst. Fourier, Grenoble