Optimal SL(2)-homomorphisms.

DOI10.4171/CMH/19MaRDI QIDQ2483786zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George McNinch

Publication date 1 August 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309385, http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_abstract.php?issn=0010-2571&vol=80&iss=2&rank=3

zbMATH Keywords

weightsgeometric invariant theoryLie algebrasnilpotent orbitsreductive groupslinear representationsSpringer isomorphismsprincipal homomorphismscompletely reducible subgroupsoptimal cocharacters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: Let G be a semisimple group over an algebraically closed field of very good characteristic for G. In the context of geometric invariant theory, G. Kempf has associated optimal cocharacters of G to an unstable vector in a linear G-representation. If the nilpotent element X in Lie(G) lies in the image of the differential of a homomorphism SL(2) --> G, we say that homomorphism is optimal for X, or simply optimal, provided that its restriction to a suitable torus of SL(2) is optimal for X in Kempf's sense. We show here that any two SL(2)-homomorphisms which are optimal for X are conjugate under the connected centralizer of X. This implies, for example, that there is a unique conjugacy class of principal homomorphisms for G. We show that the image of an optimal SL(2)-homomorphism is a completely reducible subgroup of G; this is a notion defined recently by J-P. Serre. Finally, if G is defined over the (arbitrary) subfield K of k, and if X in Lie(G)(K) is a K-rational nilpotent element whose p-th power is 0, we show that there is an optimal homomorphism for X which is defined over K.

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