How to use finite fields for problems concerning infinite fields

zbMATH Open1199.14007arXiv0903.0517MaRDI QIDQ5325564FDOQ5325564

Authors: Jean-Pierre Serre 

Publication date: 10 August 2009

Abstract: The first part is expository: it explains how finite fields may be used to prove theorems on infinite fields by a reduction mod p process. The second part gives a variant of P.Smith's fixed point theorem which applies in any characteristic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0517

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic groupfixed pointSmith theoryautomorphismfinite fieldfinite subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Group actions on affine varieties (14R20) Classical groups (11E57) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30)

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