Algebraic transformation groups; invariant theory; algebraic groups, Lie groups, Lie algebras and their representations; algebraic geometry; automorphism groups of algebraic varieties; discrete reflection groups
Main publications:
V. L. Popov, “Group varieties and group structures”, Izv. Math., 86:5 (2022), 903–924
Vladimir L. Popov, “On the equations defining affine algebraic groups”, Pacific J. Math., 279:1-2, Special issue. In memoriam: Robert Steinberg (2015), 423–446http://msp.org/pjm/2015/279-1/p19.xhtml, arXiv: 1508.02860
J.-L. Colliot-Thélène, B. Kunyavskiĭ, V. L. Popov, Z. Reichstein, “Is the function field of a reductive Lie algebra purely transcendental over the field of invariants for the adjoint action?”, Compos. Math., 147:2 (2011), 428–466
V. L. Popov, “Cross-sections, quotients, and representation rings of semisimple algebraic groups”, Transform. Groups, 16:3, special issue dedicated to Tonny Springer on the occasion of his 85th birthday (2011), 827–856
N. Lemire, V. L. Popov, Z. Reichstein, “Cayley groups”, J. Amer. Math. Soc., 19:4 (2006), 921–967
N. L. Gordeev, V. L. Popov, “Automorphism groups of finite dimensional simple algebras”, Annals of Math. (2), 158:3 (2003), 1041–1065
V. L. Popov, Groups, Generators, Syzygies, and Orbits in Invariant Theory, Translations of Mathematical Monographs, 100, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1992 , vi+245 pp.
V. L. Popov, Discrete Somplex Reflection Groups, Lectures delivered at the Math. Institute Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht in October 1980, Commun. Math. Inst. Rijksuniv. Utrecht, 15, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht Mathematical Institute, Utrecht, 1982 , 89 pp. www.researchgate.net/publication/261552178_Discrete_complex_reflection_groups . Second enlarged edition published in Communications in Mathematics, vol. 30 (2022), no. 3 (published August 22, 2023), 303–375, cm.episciences.org/11725
V. L. Popov, “Hilbert's theorem on invariants”, Soviet Math. Dokl., 20:6 (1979), 1318–1322