2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/59149We give canonical resolutions of singularities of several cone varieties arising from invariant theory. We establish a connection between our resolutions and resolutions of singularities of closure of conjugacy classes in classical Lie algebras.13 pages, to appear in Canadian Math. BulletinAlgebraic Geometry14L35text