Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183) and index
1. Preliminaries -- 2. Semisimple Orbits -- 3. The Dynkin-Kostant Classification -- 4. Principal, Subregular, and Minimal Nilpotent Orbits -- 5. Nilpotent Orbits in the Classical Algebras -- 6. Topology of Nilpotent Orbits -- 7. Induced Nilpotent Orbits -- 8. The Exceptional Cases and Bala-Carter Theory -- 9. Real Nilpotent Orbits -- 10. Advanced Topics
The principal aim of this book is to collect together the important results concerning the classification and properties of nilpotent orbits, beginning from the common ground of basic structure theory. The techniques used are elementary
