%0 Journal Article
%T The Peterson Variety and the Wonderful Compactification
%A Ana Balibanu
%J Mathematics
%D 2015
%I arXiv
%X We look at the centralizer in a semisimple algebraic group $G$ of a regular nilpotent element in $\text{Lie}(G)$, and show that its closure in the wonderful compactification is isomorphic to the Peterson variety.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01479v1