Universal formula for the Hilbert series of minimal nilpotent orbits

Abstract

We show that the Hilbert series of the projective variety $X=P(O_{min}),$ corresponding to the minimal nilpotent orbit $\mathcal O_{min},$ is universal in the sense of Vogel: it is written uniformly for all simple Lie algebras in terms of Vogel's parameters $\alpha,\beta,\gamma$ and represents a special case of the generalized hypergeometric function ${}_{4}F_{3}.$ A universal formula for the degree of $X$ is then deduced.