Essential dimension of algebraic groups, including bad characteristic

DOI10.1007/S00013-016-0925-ZMaRDI QIDQ304055zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Guralnick, Skip Garibaldi

Publication date 23 August 2016

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.09158

zbMATH Keywords

essential dimensionadjoint representationgeneric stabilizer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exceptional groups (20G41) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45) Galois cohomology of linear algebraic groups (11E72) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: We give upper bounds on the essential dimension of (quasi-)simple algebraic groups over an algebraically closed field that hold in all characteristics. The results depend on showing that certain representations are generically free. In particular, aside from the cases of spin and half-spin groups, we prove that the essential dimension of a simple algebraic group $G$ of rank at least two is at most $mathrmdim(G)-2(mathrmrank(G))-1$. It is known that the essential dimension of spin and half-spin groups grows exponentially in the rank. In most cases, our bounds are as good or better than those known in characteristic zero and the proofs are shorter. We also compute the generic stabilizer of an adjoint group on its Lie algebra.

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