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Spherical subgroups in reductive algebraic groups

Friedrich Knop·Gerhard Roehrle
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In a paper from 2015, we determined all spherical affine homogeneous varieties for simple algebraic groups in arbitrary characteristic. The present paper extends this classification to semisimple groups. This generalizes work done independently by Brion and Mikityuk in characteristic zero. Our primary approach relies on a lifting lemma to characteristic zero, enabling us to directly apply Brion's and Mikityuk's results.

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Friedrich Knop, Gerhard Roehrle. 2026-07-08. Spherical subgroups in reductive algebraic groups. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03864

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