Unique Node Extremal Subgroups in Chevalley Groups

DOI10.1081/AGB-120022235MaRDI QIDQ4414338zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Parker, Peter J. Rowley

Publication date 24 July 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1081/agb-120022235

zbMATH Keywords

Abelian normal subgroupsChevalley groupsextremal subgroupsfundamental rootspositive rootsroot subgroupsroot systemsunipotent subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Review text

In [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 55, No. 2, 387-399 (1997; Zbl 0879.20019) and J. Reine Angew. Math. 498, 135-152 (1998; Zbl 0907.20026)], the authors introduced and studied extremal subgroups in groups of Lie type. They were motivated by applications to symplectic amalgams [see their book ``Symplectic amalgams, London (2002; Zbl 1003.20013)]. Let \(G\) be a Chevalley group of rank at least 3 and \(U\) be the unipotent radical of a Borel subgroup \(B\) of \(G\). An extremal subgroup \(A\) is an Abelian normal subgroup of \(U\) which is not contained in the intersection of all the unipotent radicals of the rank 1 parabolic subgroups of \(G\) containing \(B\). If there is a unique rank 1 parabolic subgroup \(P\) of \(G\) containing \(B\) with the property that \(A\) is not contained in the unipotent radical of \(P\), the extremal subgroup \(A\) is called a unique node extremal subgroup. In this paper, the authors investigate the embedding of unique node extremal subgroups in \(U\) and prove that, apart from some specified cases, such a subgroup is contained in the unipotent radical of a certain parabolic maximal subgroup of \(G\).

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• The normal structure of the unipotent subgroup in Lie type groups and its extremal subgroups.
• Extremal subgroups in twisted Lie type groups
• Extremal and maximal normal Abelian subgroups of a maximal unipotent subgroup in groups of Lie type.
• Extremal Subgroups in Chevalley Groups
• The normal structure of unipotent subgroups in Lie-type groups and related questions.

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