Sharply transitive linear algebraic groups

field extension left-symmetric division algebras Lie algebra multiplicative group nearfields semi-linear group sharply transitive skew field Zariski-closed linear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Field extensions (12F99) Near-fields (12K05) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45) Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers (20G25) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30)

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The author studies Zariski-closed linear groups \(G \leq GL_ n k\) which act sharply transitively on the non-zero vectors of \(k^ n\), where \(k\) is a field of characteristic zero. If \(n\) is square-free or if the cohomological dimension of \(k\) is at most 1, then he proves that \(G\) is the multiplicative group of a field extension of degree \(n\) over \(k\). If \(n \leq 15\), then \(G\) is contained in a semi-linear group \(\Gamma L_ 1D\) for some skew field \(D\) of dimension \(n\) over \(k\). These results are proved by passing to the Lie algebra \(L\) of \(G\) and by investigating the representation of \(L\) in \(k^ n\). The author's arguments simplify parts of a related paper by the reviewer [Forum Math. 1, 81-101 (1989; Zbl 0649.20045)]. The results on \(G\) (or \(L\)) can be restated in terms of nearfields (or of left-symmetric division algebras).

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