Abstract Radices

DOI10.1080/00927879708825974MaRDI QIDQ4351119zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Douglas L. Costa, Gordon E. Keller

Publication date 12 May 1998

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879708825974

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic Dedekind domainsaxiomatic definitionradicestwo-dimensional special linear groupstwo-dimensional symplectic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Linear algebraic groups over adèles and other rings and schemes (20G35) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25)

Review text

The authors have introduced the theory of radices to classify the normal subgroups of \(\text{SL}(2,A)\) [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 134, No. 1, 159-188 (1991; Zbl 0743.20048)]\ and of \(\text{Sp}(4,A)\) [J. Reine Angew. Math. 427, 51-105 (1992; Zbl 0739.20023)], for a large class of commutative rings \(A\), which includes, for example, all arithmetic Dedekind domains with infinitely many units. Each such subgroup is uniquely determined by a subset of \(A\) (resp. \(M_2(A)\)) called a radix, which is an additive substructure with a number of special (multiplicative) closure properties. All previous attempts at such classifications failed to deal with the case where \(A\) has a quotient of order 2. The closure properties in the definition of a radix for \(A\) and \(M_2(A)\) are different. In this note the authors give an abstract, axiomatic definition which describes both these examples.

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