The z-Classes of Isometries

zbMATH Open1331.20039arXiv0906.0563MaRDI QIDQ5263373FDOQ5263373

Krishnendu Gongopadhyay, Ravindra S. Kulkarni

Publication date: 16 July 2015

Abstract: Let G be a group. Two elements x,y are said to be in the same z-class if their centralizers are conjugate in G. Let V be a vector space of dimension n over a field F of characteristic different from 2. Let B be a non-degenerate symmetric, or skew-symmetric, bilinear form on V. Let I(V, B) denote the group of isometries of (V, B). We show that the number of z-classes in I(V, B) is finite when F is perfect and has the property that it has only finitely many field extensions of degree at most n.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0563

zbMATH Keywords

centralizersbilinear formsconjugacy classesorthogonal groupssymplectic groups\(z\)-classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Cited In (7)

• Finiteness of \(z\)-classes in reductive groups
• Counting centralizers and z-classes of some F-groups
• \(z\)-classes in groups: a survey
• \(z\)-classes in finite groups of conjugate type \((n,1)\)
• Conjugacy classes of centralizers in the group of upper triangular matrices
• \(z\)-classes in groups.
• Conjugacy classes of centralizers in unitary groups

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