Zero-separating invariants for linear algebraic groups

DOI10.1017/S0013091515000322zbMATH Open1366.13005arXiv1402.6608MaRDI QIDQ2976320FDOQ2976320

Authors: Jon Elmer, Martin Kohls 

Publication date: 28 April 2017

Published in: Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a linear algebraic group over a field $k$, and let $V$ be a $G$-module. Recall that the nullcone of $(G,V)$ is the set of points $v$ in $V$ with the property that $f(v)=0$ for every positive degree homogeneous invariant $f$ in $k[V{]}^G$. We define numbers $delta(G,V)$ and $sigma(G,V)$ associated with a given representation as follows: $delta(G,V)$ is the smallest number $d$ such that, for any point $v$ in $V^G$ outside the nullcone, there exists an invariant $f$ of degree at most $d$ such that $f(v)$ is not zero; $sigma(G,V)$ is the same thing with $V^G$ replaced by $V$. If k has positive characteristic, we show that $delta(G,V)$ is infinite for all subgroups of $G{L}_2(k)$ containing a unipotent subgroup, and that $sigma(G,V)$ is finite if and only if $G$ is finite. If $k$ has characteristic zero we show that $delta(G,V)=1$ for all linear algebraic groups and that if $sigma(G,V)$ is finite then the connected component of $G$ is unipotent.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6608

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zbMATH Keywords

linear algebraic groupsinvariant theoryprime characteristicgeometrically reductiveglobal degree bounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50)

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