A Babylonian tower theorem for principal bundles over projective spaces (Q839299)

The authors generalise the variant of the Babylonian tower theorem for vector bundles on projective spaces proven by \textit{I. Coandă} and \textit{G. Trautmann} [Commun. Algebra 34, No. 7, 2485--2488 (2006; Zbl 1100.14034)] to principal \(G\)-bundles over projective spaces where \(G\) is a linear algebraic group over an algebraically closed field \(k\). A principal \(G\)-bundle is called split if it admits a reduction of a structure group to a maximal torus of \(G\). The authors investigate the conditions when a principal vector bundle \(\mathcal E\) and its adjoint \(ad {\mathcal E}\) split, and relations among splitting conditions of them. In the course of the proof some new results on the structure of such principal bundles are obtained.