Adjoint quotients of reductive groups

Abstract: Let

G

be a reductive group over a commutative ring

k

. In this article, we prove that the adjoint quotient

a d q G

is stable under base change. Moreover, if

G

has a maximal torus

T

, then the adjoint quotient of the torus

T

by its Weyl group will be isomorphic to

a d q G

. Then we focus on the semisimple simply connected group

G

of the constant type. In this case,

a d q G

is isomorphic to the Weil restriction

u n d e r s e t D / s p e c k p r o d a f f_{D}^{1}

, where

D

is the Dynkin scheme of

G

. Then we prove that for such

G

, the Steinberg's cross-section can be defined over

k

if

G

is quasi-split and without

A_{2 m}

-type components

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