Generic representation theory of the unipotent upper triangular groups

DOI10.1080/00927872.2015.1065838zbMATH Open1356.20025arXiv1105.4935OpenAlexW2593062996MaRDI QIDQ5740596FDOQ5740596

Authors: Michael Crumley 

Publication date: 27 July 2016

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is generally believed (and for the most part is probably true) that Lie theory, in contrast to the characteristic zero case, is insufficient to tackle the representation theory of algebraic groups over prime characteristic fields. However, in this paper we show that, for a large and important class of unipotent algebraic groups (namely the unipotent upper triangular groups $U_n$), and under a certain hypothesis relating the characteristic $p$ to both $n$ and the dimension $d$ of a representation (specifically, $pgeqextmax(n,2d)$), Lie theory is completely sufficient to determine the representation theory of these groups. To finish, we mention some important analogies (both functorial and cohomological) between the characteristic zero theories of these groups and their `generic' representation theory in characteristic $p$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4935

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zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupultraproductsupper triangular matricesadditive groupunipotent algebraic groupgeneric representation theoryheight-restricted cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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• Linear algebraic groups
• Generic Representation Theory of the Heisenberg Group

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• Unipotent Representations of Nilpotent Groups
• Representation theory of unipotent linear algebraic groups and a generalized Kirillov theory for a class of nilpotent groups

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