Is the function field of a reductive Lie algebra purely transcendental over the field of invariants for the adjoint action?

DOI10.1112/S0010437X10005002zbMath1218.14010arXiv0901.4358WikidataQ115256467 ScholiaQ115256467MaRDI QIDQ2994887

Boris Kunyavskiĭ, Vladimir L. Popov, Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, Zinovy Reichstein

Publication date: 29 April 2011

Published in: Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4358

zbMATH Keywords

integral representation; adjoint action; algebraic group; special groups; simple Lie algebra; permutation lattices; rationality problem; algebraic torus; unramified Brauer group; conjugation action; transcendental extensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20G15: Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields

14L30: Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients)

20C10: Integral representations of finite groups

17B45: Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups

14F22: Brauer groups of schemes

14E08: Rationality questions in algebraic geometry

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