On the existence of an invariant non-degenerate bilinear form under a linear map

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2010.08.009zbMATH Open1205.15040arXiv0903.0826OpenAlexW1966654359MaRDI QIDQ609484FDOQ609484

Ravindra S. Kulkarni, Krishnendu Gongopadhyay

Publication date: 1 December 2010

Published in: Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $V$ be a vector space over a field $F$. Assume that the characteristic of $F$ is emph{large}, i.e. $char(F)>dimV$. Let $T:VoV$ be an invertible linear map. We answer the following question in this paper: When does $V$ admit a $T$-invariant non-degenerate symmetric (resp. skew-symmetric) bilinear form? We also answer the infinitesimal version of this question. Following Feit-Zuckerman cite{fz}, an element $g$ in a group $G$ is called real if it is conjugate in $G$ to its own inverse. So it is important to characterize real elements in $G(V,F)$. As a consequence of the answers to the above question, we offer a characterization of the real elements in $G(V,F)$. Suppose $V$ is equipped with a non-degenerate symmetric (resp. skew-symmetric) bilinear form $B$. Let $S$ be an element in the isometry group $I(V,B)$. A non-degenerate $S$-invariant subspace $W$ of $(V,B)$ is called orthogonally indecomposable with respect to $S$ if it is not an orthogonal sum of proper $S$-invariant subspaces. We classify the orthogonally indecomposable subspaces. This problem is nontrivial for the unipotent elements in $I(V,B)$. The level of a unipotent $T$ is the least integer $k$ such that $(T-I{)}^k=0$. We also classify the levels of unipotents in $I(V,B)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0826

zbMATH Keywords

invariant subspacebilinear formlinear maporthogonally indecomposable subspacesreal elementsunipotents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear transformations, semilinear transformations (15A04)

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