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Generically free representations III: extremely bad characteristic

Representation Theory 2020-08-17 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

In parts I and II, we determined which faithful irreducible representations VV of a simple linear algebraic group GG are generically free for Lie(GG), i.e., which VV have an open subset consisting of vectors whose stabilizer in Lie(GG) is zero, with some assumptions on the characteristic of the field. This paper settles the remaining cases, which are of a different nature because Lie(GG) has a more complicated structure and there need not exist general dimension bounds of the sort that exist in good characteristic.

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@article{arxiv.1801.06915,
  title  = {Generically free representations III: extremely bad characteristic},
  author = {Skip Garibaldi and Robert M. Guralnick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.06915},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

See arxiv:1711.06400 for part I and arxiv:1711.05502 for part II. v2 is substantially revised, and aligns with v3 of parts I and II. See http://garibaldibros.com for supporting Magma code

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