Conjugacy classes of nilpotent elements in complex semisimple Lie algebras are classified using the Bala-Carter theory. In this theory, nilpotent orbits in g ar

Through the 1990s, a circle of ideas emerged relating three very different kinds of objects associated to a complex semisimple Lie algebra: nilpotent orbits, re

The principal aim of this book is to collect together the important results concerning the classification and properties of nilpotent orbits, beginning from the

"Through the 1990s, a circle of ideas emerged relating three very different kinds of objects associated to a complex semisimple Lie algebra: nilpotent orbits, r

This is the second volume of the new subseries "Invariant Theory and Algebraic Transformation Groups". The aim of the survey by A. Bialynicki-Birula is to prese