The commutators of classical groups

DOI10.1007/S10958-017-3318-3zbMATH Open1393.20023arXiv1510.07143OpenAlexW2963365470MaRDI QIDQ2397380FDOQ2397380

Nikolai Vavilov, R. Hazrat, Zuhong Zhang

Publication date: 22 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In his seminal paper, half a century ago, Hyman Bass established a commutator formula in the setting of (stable) general linear group which was the key step in defining the K_1 group. Namely, he proved that for an associative ring A with identity, E(A)=[E(A),E(A)]=[GL(A),GL(A)] where GL(A) is the stable general linear group and E(A) is its elementary subgroup. Since then, various commutator formulas have been studied in stable and non-stable settings, and for a range of classical and algebraic like-groups, mostly in relation to subnormal subgroups of these groups. The major classical theorems and methods developed include some of the splendid results of the heroes of classical algebraic K-theory; Bak, Quillen, Milnor, Suslin, Swan and Vaserstein, among others. One of the dominant techniques in establishing commutator type results is localisation. In this note we describe some recent applications of localisation methods to the study (higher/relative) commutators in the groups of points of algebraic and algebraic-like groups, such as general linear groups, GL(n,A), unitary groups GU(2n,A, Lambda) and Chevalley groups G(Phi,A). We also state some of the intermediate results as well as some corollaries of these results. This note provides a general overview of the subject and covers the current activities. It contains complete proofs of several main results to give the reader a self-contained source. We have borrowed some of the proofs from our previous papers and expositions

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07143

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutator calculus (20F12) Linear algebraic groups over adèles and other rings and schemes (20G35) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25) (K_1) of group rings and orders (19B28) Stability for linear groups (19B14)

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