Acceptability of classical groups in non-zero characteristic

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Abstract: A group G is called to be acceptable (due to M. Larsen) if for any finite group H, two element-conjugate homomorphisms are globally conjugate. We answer the acceptability question for general linear, special linear, unitary, symplectic and all orthogonal groups over an algebraically closed field of non-zero characteristics.


A group \(G\) is called to be \textit{acceptable} if for any finite group \(H\), two element-conjugate homomorphisms from \(H\) to \(G\) are globally conjugate. In this paper, the author uses some classical results about the conjugacy classes of (unipotent) elements in linear algebraic groups in a neat way to prove that any semisimple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of non-zero characteristic is not acceptable.











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