Abelian unipotent subgroups of reductive groups

DOI10.1016/S0022-4049(01)00038-XzbMATH Open0999.20035arXivmath/0007056OpenAlexW2014655433MaRDI QIDQ5957772FDOQ5957772

George McNinch

Publication date: 10 September 2002

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let G be a connected reductive group defined over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p > 0. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, when p is a good prime, we give a new proof of the ``order formula of D. Testerman for unipotent elements in G; moreover, we show that the same formula determines the p-nilpotence degree of the corresponding nilpotent elements in the Lie algebra of G. Second, if G is semisimple and p is sufficiently large, we show that G always has a faithful representation (r,V) with the property that the exponential of dr(X) lies in r(G) for each p-nilpotent X in Lie(G). This property permits a simplification of the description given by Suslin, Friedlander, and Bendel of the (even) cohomology ring for the Frobenius kernels G_d, d > 1. The previous authors already observed that the natural representation of a classical group has the above property (with no restriction on p). Our methods apply to any Chevalley group and hence give the result also for quasisimple groups with ``exceptional type root systems. The methods give explicit sufficient conditions on p; for an adjoint semisimple G with Coxeter number h, the condition p > 2h -2 is always good enough.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0007056

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zbMATH Keywords

modular representationsclassical groupssemisimple groupsgroup actionsLie algebrasnilpotent orbitsroot systemsChevalley groupscohomology ringsFrobenius kernelsunipotent elementsconnected reductive groupsCoxeter numbersgood primesTesterman's order formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45) 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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