Spin groups over a commutative ring and the associated root data (Q1396721)
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Spin groups over a commutative ring and the associated root data (English)
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8 July 2003
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Usual constructions of spin and Clifford groups, restricted to the case where the basic quadratic space is hyperbolic, are examined as those of group schemes over a commutative ring. Not surprisingly they yield indeed smooth and reductive group schemes, but the proof involes a lot of calculation and uses a connection with Jordan pairs. Maximal tori and their associated root data are also constructed explicitly.
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Spin groups
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exterior algebras
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jordan pairs
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root data
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Clifford groups
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