How to use finite fields for problems concerning infinite fields

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Authors Jean-Pierre Serre

Publication date 10 August 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0517

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic groupautomorphismfinite fieldfinite subgroupfixed pointSmith theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical groups (11E57) Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Group actions on affine varieties (14R20) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30)

Abstract: The first part is expository: it explains how finite fields may be used to prove theorems on infinite fields by a reduction mod p process. The second part gives a variant of P.Smith's fixed point theorem which applies in any characteristic.

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