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When is an orbit spherical?

Let's assume we have an affine, reductive, algebraic, complex, generally friendly and cooperative group $G$ acting algebraically on a variety $X$. Let $x\in X$ be some point. Under what conditions on ...
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Diagonalizable linear algebraic group is isomorphic to $(\mathbb{C}^*)^r\times A$, for some finite abelian group $A$

I have three questions about algebraic groups. Let $D$ be a linear algebraic group. Then the following are equivalent: $D$ is diagonalizable. $\mathop{Hom}(D,\mathbb{C}^*)$ is finitely generated ...