Twisted Bhargava cubes

DOI10.2140/ANT.2014.8.1913MaRDI QIDQ482299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gordan Savin, Wee Teck Gan

Publication date 22 December 2014

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0133

zbMATH Keywords

Bhargava's cubestwisted composition algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Prehomogeneous vector spaces (11S90) Composition algebras (17A75) Exceptional Jordan structures (17C40)

Abstract: Let G be a reductive group and P=MN a maximal parabolic subgroup. The group M acts, by conjugation, on N/[N,N]. It is well known that, over an algebraically closed field, the group M acts transitively on a Zariski open set. However, over a general field, the structure of orbits may be quite non-trivial. A description may involve unexpected invariants. A notable example is when G is a split, simply connected group of type D_4, and P is the maximal parabolic corresponding to the branching point of the Dynkin diagram. The space N/[N,N] is also known as the Bhargava cube, and it was the starting point of his investigations of prehomogeneous spaces. We consider a version of this problem for the triality D_4.

Review text

Bhargava, in some previous works, has extended Gauss's composition law for binary quadratic forms to more general situations: he determined the integral orbits of a prehomogeneous vector space which arises naturally in the structure theory of the split group \(\mathrm{Spin}_8\). In the paper under review, the authors consider the twisted version of this prehomogeneous vector space which arises in quasisplit \(\mathrm{Spin}_{8}^{E}\), where \(E\) is a separable cubic algebra over a field \(F\). They also classify the generic orbits over \(F\) by twisted composition \(F\)-algebras of \(E\)-dimension \(2\).

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