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

DOI10.4171/CMH/158MaRDI QIDQ1001228zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors P. Gille, Zinovy Reichstein

Publication date 16 February 2009

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703813, http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_pdf.php?issn=0010-2571&vol=84&iss=1&rank=9

zbMATH Keywords

essential dimensiongroup actionlinear algebraic groupsnon-Abelian cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois cohomology of linear algebraic groups (11E72) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10)

Abstract: Let G be a connected linear algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field k and H be a finite abelian subgroup of G whose order is prime to char(k). We show that the essential dimension of G is bounded from below by rank(H) - rank C_G(H)^0, where rank C_G(H)^0 denotes the rank of the maximal torus in the centralizer C_G(H). This inequality, conjectured by J.-P. Serre, generalizes previous results of Reichstein -- Youssin (where char(k) is assumed to be 0 and C_G(H) to be finite) and Chernousov -- Serre (where H is assumed to be a 2-group).

Review text

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 \(G\).

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