#### Vol. 12, No. 3, 2019

 Recent Issues
 The Journal About the Journal Editorial Board Subscriptions Editors’ Interests Scientific Advantages Submission Guidelines Submission Form Ethics Statement Editorial Login ISSN: 1944-4184 (e-only) ISSN: 1944-4176 (print) Author Index Coming Soon Other MSP Journals
Nilpotent orbits for Borel subgroups of $\mathrm{SO}_{5}(k)$

### Madeleine Burkhart and David Vella

Vol. 12 (2019), No. 3, 451–462
##### Abstract

Let $G$ be a quasisimple algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field $k$ and $B$ a Borel subgroup of $G$ acting on the nilradical $\mathfrak{n}$ of its Lie algebra $\mathfrak{b}$ via the adjoint representation. It is known that $B$ has only finitely many orbits in only five cases: when $G$ is type ${A}_{n}$ for $n\le 4$, and when $G$ is type ${B}_{2}$. We elaborate on this work in the case when $G={SO}_{5}\left(k\right)$ (type ${B}_{2}$) by finding the defining equations of each orbit. We use these equations to determine the dimension of the orbits and the closure ordering on the set of orbits. The other four cases, when $G$ is type ${A}_{n}$, can be approached the same way and are treated in a separate paper.

##### Keywords
nilpotent orbits, Borel subgroups, modality
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 17B08, 20G05