Flexibility conjecture for affine spherical varieties

Let GG be a reductive group and let XX be an affine spherical GG-variety, meaning that XX is an irreducible normal algebraic GG-variety on which a Borel subgroup of GG has an open orbit. Suppose that XX has no non-constant invertible regular functions, equivalently K[X]×=K×{\mathbb K}[X]^{\times}={\mathbb K}^{\times}.

Flexibility conjecture. XX is flexible.

This conjecture concerns the relationship between spherical group actions and flexibility, a strong form of transitivity generated by additive-group actions. It was proposed in the cited work; the supplied source does not indicate whether it has been resolved.

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Anton Shafarevich, “Flexibility of affine spherical varieties”, arXiv:2512.07031 (2025).

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