Component groups of unipotent centralizers in good characteristic (Q1868755): Difference between revisions

The authors consider a connected, reductive group \(G\) over an algebraically closed field of good characteristic. For \(u\in G\) unipotent, they describe the conjugacy classes in the component group \(A(u)\) of the centralizer of \(u\). Their results extend work of the second author done for simple, adjoint \(G\) over the complex numbers. When \(G\) is simple and adjoint, the previous work of the second author makes their description combinatorial and explicit. Moreover, it turns out that knowledge of the conjugacy classes suffices to determine the group structure of \(A(u)\). Thus they obtain the result, previously known through case-checking, that the structure of the component group \(A(u)\) is independent of good characteristic.