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Mikhail Ignatev

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arXiv2026

Orbits of maximal and submaximal dimension for Sylow $p$-subgroups of finite classical groups

Let $U$ be a Sylow $p$-subgroup in a classical group over a finite field with $q$ elements of characteristic $p$ large enough. The coadjoint orbits of the group $U$ play the key role in the description of irreducible complex characters of $U$. In the paper, we provide a classification of such orbits of pre-maximal dimension for symplectic groups and orbits of maximal dimension for orthogonal groups. As a corollary, we compute the number of all orbits mentioned above. It turned out that each of these numbers is a polynomial in $q - 1$ with integer non-negative coefficients, which agrees with the Isaacs' conjecture.

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arXiv2026

Orbits of submaximal dimension for Sylow $p$-subgroups of finite classical orthogonal groups

Let $U$ be a Sylow $p$-subgroup in a classical orthogonal group over a finite field with $q$ elements of characteristic $p$ large enough. The coadjoint orbits of the group $U$ play the key role in the description of irreducible complex characters of $U$. In the paper, we provide a classification of such orbits of pre-maximal dimension. As a corollary, we compute the number of all orbits mentioned above. It turned out that each of these numbers is a polynomial in $q - 1$ with integer non-negative coefficients, which agrees with the Isaacs' conjecture.

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arXiv2026

Tangent cones to Schubert varieties for Kac--Moody groups

Let $G$ be the affine Kac--Moody group of type $\widetilde A_{n-1}$, $B$ be an Iwahori subgroup in $G$, $\mathcal{F}=G/B$ be the flag variety, and $W$ be the Weyl group of $G$. Given distinct involutions $w_1$, $w_2\in W$, we prove that the tangent cones $C_{w_1}$, $C_{w_2}$ to the corresponding Schubert subvarieties $X_{w_1}$ and $X_{w_2}$ of $\mathcal{F}$ at the point $p=e\mod B$ do not coincide as subvarieties of the tangent space to $\mathcal{F}$ at the point $p$. This generalizes similar results in the finite-dimensional setting. The main technical tools we used are combinatorics of the embeddings of the Weyl groups of different ranks and coadjoint orbits for the unipotent radical of the group $B$.

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arXiv2026

On the number of irreducible representations for finite unipotent Heisenberg-type groups

Let $U$ be an algebraic subgroup of the group of $n\times n$ upper-triangular matrices with units on the diagonal over a finite field of large enough characteristic, and $\mathfrak{n}$ be the Lie algebra of $U$. The main tool in representation theory of $U$ is the orbit method, which classifies irreducible representations of the group $U$ in terms of coadjoint orbits on the dual space $\mathfrak{n}^*$. We consider two types of generalizations of the Heisenberg group, namely, generalized Heisenberg groups defined with an arbitrary bilinear form, and certain subgroups in maximal unipotent subgroups of classical orthogonal algebraic groups. We provide a way to calculate the number of irreducible representations of such groups. It turned out that this number is a polynomial in $q-1$ with nonnegative integer coefficients, which agrees with Isaacs' conjecture.

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arXiv2025

Coadjoint orbits of low dimension for nilradicals of Borel subalgebras in classical types

Let $\mathfrak g$ be a classical simple Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field $\mathbb F$ of characteristic zero or large enough, and let $\mathfrak n$ be a maximal nilpotent subalgebra of $\mathfrak g$. The main tool in representation theory of $\mathfrak n$ is the orbit method, which classifies primitive ideals in the universal enveloping algebra ${\rm U}(\mathfrak n)$ and unitary representations of the unipotent group $N=\exp(\mathfrak n)$ in terms of coadjoint orbits on the dual space $\mathfrak n^*$. In the paper, we describe explicitly coadjoint orbits of low dimension for $\mathfrak n$ as above. The answer is given in terms of subsets of positive roots. As a corollary, we provide a way to calculate the number of irreducible complex representations of dimensions $q$, $q^2$ and $q^3$ for a maximal unipotent subgroup $N(q)$ in a classical Chevalley group $G(q)$ over a finite field $\mathbb F_q$ with $q$ elements. It turned out that this number is a polynomial in $q-1$ with nonnegative integer coefficients, which agrees with Isaac's conjecture.

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arXiv2025

On flexibility of trinomial varieties

Trinomial varieties are affine varieties given by a system of equations consisting of polynomials with three terms. Such varieties are total coordinate spaces of normal varieties with torus action of complexity one. For an affine variety $X$ we consider the subgroup $\mathrm{SAut}(X)$ of the automorphism group generated by all algebraic subgroups isomorphic to the additive group of the ground field. By definition, an affine variety is flexible if $\mathrm{SAut}(X)$ acts transitively on its regular locus. Gaifullin proved a sufficient condition for a trinomial hypersurface to be flexible. We give a generalization of his results, proving a sufficient condition to be flexible for an arbitrary trinomial variety.

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arXiv2024

Orbits and characters associated with rook placements for Sylow $p$-subgroups of finite orthogonal groups

Let $U$ be a Sylow $p$-subgroup in a classical group over a finite field of characteristic $p$. The coadjoint orbits of the group $U$ play the key role in the description of irreducible complex characters of $U$. Almost all important classes of orbits and characters studied to the moment can be uniformly described as the orbits and characters associated with so-called orthogonal rook placements. In the paper, we study such orbits for the orthogonal group. We construct a polarization for the canonical form on such an orbit and present a semi-direct decomposition for the corresponding irreducible characters in the spirit of the Mackey little group method. As a corollary, we compute the dimension of an orbit associated with an orthogonal rook placement.

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arXiv2023

Characters of the unitriangular group and the Mackey method

Let $U$ be the unitriangular group over a finite field. We consider an interesting class of irreducible complex characters of $U$, so-called characters of depth 2. This is a next natural step after characters of maximal and submaximal dimension, whose description is already known. We explicitly describe the support of a character of depth 2 by a system of defining algebraic equations. After that, we calculate the value of such a character on an element from the support. The main technical tool used in the proofs is the Mackey little group method for semidirect products.

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arXiv2021

Automorphism groups of ind-varieties of generalized flags

We compute the group of automorphisms of an arbitrary ind-variety of (possibly isotropic) generalized flags. Such an ind-variety is a homogeneous ind-space for one of the ind-groups $SL(\infty)$, $O(\infty)$ or $Sp(\infty)$. We show that the respective automorphism groups are much larger than $SL(\infty)$, $O(\infty)$ or $Sp(\infty)$, and present the answer in terms of Mackey groups. The latter are groups of automorphisms of nondegenerate pairings of (in general infinite-dimensional) vector spaces. An explicit matrix form of the automorphism group of an arbitrary ind-variety of generalized flags is also given. The case of the Sato grassmannian is considered in detail, and its automorphism group is the projectivization of the connected component of unity in the group Japanese $GL(\infty)$.

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