Faithful representations of Chevalley groups over quotient rings of non-Archimedean local fields (Q2357402)

Summary: Let \(F\) be a non-Archimedean local field with the ring of integers \(\mathcal{O}\) and the prime ideal \(\mathfrak{p}\) and let \(G=\mathbf G_{\mathrm {ad}} (\mathcal O/\mathfrak p^n)\) be the adjoint Chevalley group. Let \(m_f (G)\) denote the smallest possible dimension of a faithful representation of \(G\). Using the Stone-von Neumann theorem, we determine a lower bound for \(m_f (G)\) which is asymptotically the same as the results of \textit{V. Landazuri} and \textit{G. M. Seitz} [J. Algebra 32, 418--443 (1974; Zbl 0325.20008)] and \textit{G. M. Seitz} and \textit{A. E. Zalesskij} [J. Algebra 158, No. 1, 233--243 (1993; Zbl 0789.20014)] for split Chevalley groups over \(\mathbb F_q\). Our result yields a conceptual explanation of the exponents that appear in the aforementioned results.