Unipotent centralizers in algebraic groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2003.11.003MaRDI QIDQ1887589zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gary M. Seitz

Publication date 22 November 2004

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2003.11.003

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic groupscentralizersconnected componentsunipotent elementsunipotent subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field \(K\) of characteristic \(p>0\) with \(p\) a good prime for \(G\). Let \(u\in G\) be unipotent. Canonical embeddings of \(u\) in Abelian unipotent subgroups are studied to obtain results about \(C_G(u)\) -- in particular, \(Z(C_G(u))\) and the reductive part of \(C_G(u)\). In earlier work of the author, the case where \(u\) has order \(p\) was studied and some very elegant results obtained. It turns out that there is a \(1\)-dimensional torus \(T\) acting without fixed points on the connected component \(A\) of \(Z(C_G(u))\) and that \(A\) decomposes nicely as a \(T\)-module. This enables one to reveal many properties of \(C_G(u)\) in a very natural setting.

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