Simple groups stabilizing polynomials

DOI10.1017/FMP.2015.3zbMATH Open1365.20046arXiv1309.6611OpenAlexW2120779243MaRDI QIDQ2941124FDOQ2941124

Authors: Skip Garibaldi, Robert Guralnick 

Publication date: 27 August 2015

Published in: Forum of Mathematics, Pi (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the problem of determining, for a polynomial function $f$ on a vector space $V$, the linear transformations $g$ of $V$ such that $fg=f$. In case $f$ is invariant under a simple algebraic group $G$ acting irreducibly on $V$, we note that the subgroup of $GL(V)$ stabilizing $f$ often has identity component $G$ and we give applications realizing various groups, including the largest exceptional group $E_8$, as automorphism groups of polynomials and algebras. We show that starting with a simple group $G$ and an irreducible representation $V$, one can almost always find an $f$ whose stabilizer has identity component $G$ and that no such $f$ exists in the short list of excluded cases. This relies on our core technical result, the enumeration of inclusions $G<HleSL(V)$ such that $V/H$ has the same dimension as $V/G$. The main results of this paper are new even in the special case where $k$ is the complex numbers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6611

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zbMATH Keywords

irreducible representationsimple algebraic groupexceptional group \(E_{8}\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) Exceptional groups (20G41) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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