The combinatorics of normal subgroups in the unipotent upper triangular group

DOI10.5070/C61055381MaRDI QIDQ5048453zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors L. Gagnon

Publication date 16 November 2022

Published in Combinatorial Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00108

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-Stirling numberLie algebra idealmatroidnonnesting set partitionnormal subgroupunipotent group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of groups and algebras (05E16) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45) Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: Describing the conjugacy classes of the unipotent upper triangular groups $mathrm{UT}_n(mathbb{F}_q)$ uniformly (for all or many values of $n$ and $q$) is a nearly impossible task. This paper takes on the related problem of describing the normal subgroups of $mathrm{UT}_n(mathbb{F}_q)$. For $q$ a prime, a bijection will be established between these subgroups and pairs of combinatorial objects with labels from $mathbb{F}_q^{imes}$. Each pair comprises a loopless binary matroid and a tight splice, an apparently new kind of combinatorial object which interpolates between nonnesting partitions and shortened polyominoes. For arbitrary $q$, the same approach describes a natural subset of normal subgroups: those which correspond to the ideals of the Lie algebra $mathfrak{ut}_n(mathbb{F}_q)$ under an approximation of the exponential map.

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