On the semisimplicity of low-dimensional representations of semisimple groups in characteristic p

DOI10.1006/JABR.1995.1085MaRDI QIDQ1891736zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Larsen

Publication date 20 March 1996

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1995.1085

zbMATH Keywords

alcovesCoxeter numbersfinite groups of Lie typeroot latticessemisimple algebraic groupstensor products of semisimple modulesweight lattices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple and semisimple modules, primitive rings and ideals in associative algebras (16D60) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

Review text

The main result of the paper is that any module of dimension at most \(\sqrt{p/3}\) for a semisimple algebraic group is semisimple if the characteristic of the ground field is \(p\). In the process of proving this result, the author also proves that the tensor product of two semisimple modules is semisimple provided the dimension of the tensor product module is at most \(p/f-h\) with \(f\) being the index of the root lattice in the weight lattice and \(h\) being the Coxeter number. The situation for finite groups of Lie type is also considered. It should be pointed out that Jantzen has proved that the modules with dimensions at most \(p\) are semisimple and \textit{J.-P. Serre} [Invent. Math. 116, 513-530 (1994; Zbl 0816.20014)] has proved a much stronger result for the tensor product of semisimple modules to be semisimple. The readers should be warned that the definition of alcoves in the paper and the alcoves later referred are not consistent.

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