Extensions of Algebraic Groups

MaRDI QIDQ6473699arXivFDO

Authors Shrawan Kumar, Karl-Hermann Neeb

Publication date 27 February 2004

Published in arXiv

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

arXiv classification

math.AGmath.GR

Abstract: Let $G$ be a connected complex algebraic group and $A$ a connected abelian algebraic group endowed with an algebraic action of $G$ by group automorphisms. In the present note we describe the abelian group $Ex{t}_{alg}(G,A)$ of algebraic group extensions of $G$ by $A$ in terms of a short exact sequence relating the ext-group to a relative second Lie algebra cohomology space and the fundamental group of the commutator group. Our second main result is an analog of the Van-Est Theorem for algebraic group cohomology, saying that for an algebraic $G$ module $a$ and $pgeq0$ the algebraic group cohomology $H_{alg}^p(G,a)$ is given by the relative cohomology of the Lie algebra $g$ with respect to the Lie algebra of a maximal reductive subgroup.

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