Group Actions
Let G be a unipotent group acting on an affine variety. Then every G-orbit in the variety is closed.
The Borel fixed-point theorem states that a connected solvable group acting on a non-empty complete variety admits a fixed point. The classical Lie–Kolchin theorem follows from the theorem applied to the flag variety.
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