Fixed point spaces in primitive actions of simple algebraic groups.

DOI10.1016/S0021-8693(03)00270-9MaRDI QIDQ1400195zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Timothy C. Burness

Publication date 13 August 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-8693(03)00270-9

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter numbersfixed pointshomogeneous spacesmaximal subgroupsprimitive permutation groupssimple algebraic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximal subgroups (20E28) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field and \(M\) a maximal closed subgroup of \(G\) or \(M\) finite. Let \(\Omega=G/M\). One wants to study the size of the fixed points of an element of \(x\in G\) -- i.e. what is the codimension of the fixed point space \(\Omega(x)\) of \(x\) in \(\Omega\). This has applications to many kinds of problems. The main results in the article show that typically there is an involution in \(G\) with a reasonably large fixed point space. More precisely, unless \(M\) is finite of odd order or \(M\) is one of six explicit cases, then there is an involution \(x\) with \(\dim\Omega(x)/\dim\Omega\geq 1/2-1/(2h+1)\), where \(h\) is the Coexter number for \(G\). The proof is based on the classification of maximal subgroups of simple algebraic groups.

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