Étale representations for reductive algebraic groups with factors Sp_n or SO_n

. Such a module is called super-'etale if the stabilizer of a point in the open orbit is trivial. Popov proved that reductive algebraic groups admitting super-'etale modules are special algebraic groups. He further conjectured that a reductive group admitting a super-'etale module is always isomorphic to a product of general linear groups. In light of previously available examples, one can conjecture more generally that in such a group all simple factors are either

S L_{n}

for some

n

or

S p_{2}

. We show that this is not the case by constructing a family of super-'etale modules for groups with a factor

S p_{n}

for arbitrary

n g e q 1

. A similar construction provides a family of 'etale modules for groups with a factor

S O_{n}

, which shows that groups with 'etale modules with non-trivial stabilizer are not necessarily special. Both families of examples are somewhat surprising in light of the previously known examples of 'etale and super-'etale modules for reductive groups. Finally, we show that the exceptional groups

F_{4}

and

E_{8}

cannot appear as simple factors in the maximal semisimple subgroup of an arbitrary Lie group with a linear 'etale representation.

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