Elashvili's index conjecture for centralizers of reductive Lie algebras

Let g{\mathfrak g} be a reductive Lie algebra, and let gx{\mathfrak g}^x denote the centralizer of xgx\in{\mathfrak g}^*. Write indh{\rm ind}\,{\mathfrak h} for the index of a Lie algebra h{\mathfrak h} and rkg{\rm rk}\,{\mathfrak g} for the rank of g{\mathfrak g}. Elashvili's conjecture.

indgx=rkgfor all xg.{\rm ind}\,{\mathfrak g}^x={\rm rk}\,{\mathfrak g}\quad\text{for all }x\in{\mathfrak g}^*.

The conjecture predicts that every coadjoint centralizer of a reductive Lie algebra has index equal to the rank of the original algebra. It is motivated by the argument shift method and its relation to algebraically independent Poisson-commuting functions on coadjoint orbits; the supplied text does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Jean-Yves Charbonnel and Anne Moreau, “The index of centralizers of elements of reductive Lie algebras”, arXiv:1005.0831 (2015).

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