Flatness of the commutator map over SL_n

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNZ285MaRDI QIDQ3382622zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zhipeng Lü, Michael Larsen

Publication date 21 September 2021

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07300

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group schemes (14L15) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: This paper contributes to the study of the fibers of the commutator map on special linear groups in characteristic zero. Specifically, we show that the fibers over non-central elements all have the same dimension. Also we explain that the fibers over central elements can be of larger dimension and compute how large. We use the character tables of finite general linear groups constructed by J.A. Green to count solutions to the commutator equation $[x,y]=g$ over finite fields and use algebraic geometry to go from characteristic $p$ to characteristic $0$. To deal with fibers over central elements, we compute the orbits of the conjugation action of $mathrm{GL}_n$ on these fibers.

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