Elementary abelian subgroups: from algebraic groups to finite groups
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Elementary abelian subgroups: from algebraic groups to finite groups
author: Jianbei An
author: Heiko Dietrich
author: Alastair J. Litterick
published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
publication date: 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The paper studies the elementary abelian \(p\)-subgroups of simple linear algebraic groups and their corresponding finite groups of Lie type. When considering a linear algebraic group, the authors always work over an algebraically closed field \(K\) of characteristic \(\ell\) such that \(\ell \neq p\), noting that when the characteristic is equal to \(p\) analogues of their results are known from Borel-Tits theory. As a main result, the paper provides an algorithm, which the authors have implemented in Magma, for classifying toral elementary abelian \(p\)-subgroups, i.e., those contained in some maximal torus, up to conjugacy in a simple linear algebraic group of any type. Furthermore, they also calculate a classification of non-toral such subgroups for linear algebraic groups of exceptional type, thus providing a complete classification in these cases. They also discuss the structure of the normalizers and centralizers for all such subgroups. As explained in their introduction, this classification is done with an eye towards studying \(p\)-radical and \(p\)-local subgroups of finite simple groups.\N\NThe main techniques of the paper are two translations of information. Primarily, the authors apply the Lang-Steinberg theorem, which allows them to translate information about the conjugacy of subgroups from the linear algebraic group to a finite group of fixed points and vice versa. In particular, the authors work with the fixed points of a Steinberg endomorphism \(F \colon G \to G\) of their linear algebraic group, which by definition is an automorphism such that for some \(m\), \(F^m\) is a Frobenius morphism induced by the \(q\)-power map \(K \to K\) for some \(\mathbb{F}_q \subset K\). They then translate information between \(G\) and \(G^F\). Additionally, the authors employ a result of Larsen (with previous variations by other authors) which implies that the classification of elementary abelian \(p\)-subgroups is independent of \(\ell\) so long as \(\ell \neq p\…
reviewed by: Cameron Ruether
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20G07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20G41
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20-08
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20D06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22E40
zbMATH DE Number: 7937449
zbMATH Keywords: algebraic groups
zbMATH Keywords: finite simple groups
zbMATH Keywords: elementary abelian groups
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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DOI: 10.1090/TRAN/9140
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7937449