%0 Journal Article %T B-stable ideals in the nilradical of a Borel subalgebra %A Eric Sommers %J Mathematics %D 2003 %I arXiv %X We count the number of strictly positive $B$-stable ideals in the nilradical of a Borel subalgebra and prove that the minimal roots of any $B$-stable ideal are conjugate by an element of the Weyl group to a subset of the simple roots. We also compute the number of ideals whose minimal roots are conjugate to a fixed subset of simple roots. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303182v2