A lower bound on the essential dimension of a connected linear group (Q1001228)

Let \(G\) be a connected linear algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field \(k\). Let \(H\subset G\) be a finite abelian subgroup of \(G\), whose order is not divisible by \(\text{char}(k)\). The authors prove a lower bound for the essential dimension of \(G\), namely they show \(\text{ess.dim.}(G)\geq \text{rank}(H)-\text{rank} C_G(H)^{\circ}\). Here \(\text{rank}(H)\) is the smallest positive integer \(r\) such that \(H\) can be written as a direct product of \(r\) cyclic groups and \(\text{rank}(C_G(H)^{\circ})\) is the dimension of a maximal torus in \(C_G(H)\), the centralizer of \(H\) in \(G\).