Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
For most of the finite subgroups of $\text{SL(3,}\,\text{C)}$ we give explicit formulae for the Molien series of the coinvariant algebras, generalizing McKay's formulae
$\text{ }\!\![\!\!\text{ McKay99 }\!\!]\!\!\text{ }$ for subgroups of
$\text{SU(2)}$. We also study the
$G $-orbit Hilbert scheme
$\text{Hil}{{\text{b}}^{G}}({{\mathbf{C}}^{3}})$
for any finite subgroup
$G $ of
$\text{SO(3)}$, which is known to be a minimal (crepant) resolution of the orbit space
${{\mathbf{C}}^{3}}/G$
. In this case the fiber over the origin of the Hilbert-Chow morphism from
$\text{Hil}{{\text{b}}^{G}}({{\mathbf{C}}^{3}})$ to
${{\mathbf{C}}^{3}}/G$ consists of finitely many smooth rational curves, whose planar dual graph is identified with a certain subgraph of the representation graph of
$G $. This is an
$\text{SO(3)}$ version of the McKay correspondence in the
$\text{SU(2)}$ case.