No label defined (Q4713657)

In the paper automorphisms of unipotent subgroups of certain parabolic subgroups of Chevalley groups of type \(D_ \ell\), \(\ell\geq 5\) over a field \(K\) with \(\text{char}(K)\neq 2,3\) are characterized. According to a result of \textit{R. Ree} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 84, 392--400 (1957; Zbl 0078.01603)] it is sufficient to consider subgroups of the group \(\Omega_{2\ell}(K)\). The main result of the paper is the following: Let \(K\) be a field of \(\text{char}(K)\neq 2,3\) and \(\ell\geq 5\). Let \(U\) be the unipotent subgroup of the parabolic subgroup of \(\Omega_{2\ell}(K)\) which stabilizes the flag \(0=V_0\subset V_1\subset\dots V_n=V\) of isotropic subspaces, where \(n\geq 4\), \(\dim V_n=\ell\) and \(\dim V_n/V_{n-1}\geq 2\). Then for any automorphism \(\sigma\) of \(U\) there exist diagonal \(d\), field \(f\), inner \(i\), extremal \(e\) and central \(c\) automorphisms such that \(\sigma=d\cdot f\cdot i\cdot e\cdot c\).