Abstract
It is shown that each algebraic action of a simply connected reductive algebraic group on an affine algebraic variety can be contracted (in a flat one-dimensional family of actions) to a canonical action of on a certain affine variety having some very special properties. It is shown that and have many algebro-geometric properties in common. As an application, we prove the Procesi-Kraft conjecture to the effect that the singularities of the closures of orbits in the case of spherical stabilizer are rational. It is assumed that the ground field has characteristic zero.Bibliography: 37 titles.
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