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.