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Longer nilpotent series for classical unipotent subgroups

Group Theory 2015-07-31 v2

Abstract

In studying nilpotent groups, the lower central series and other variations can be used to construct an associated Z+\mathbb{Z}^+-graded Lie ring, which is a powerful method to inspect a group. Indeed, the process can be generalized substantially by introducing Nd\mathbb{N}^d-graded Lie rings. We compute the adjoint refinements of the lower central series of the unipotent subgroups of the classical Chevalley groups over the field Z/pZ\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z} of rank dd. We prove that, for all the classical types, this characteristic filter is a series of length Θ(d2)\Theta(d^2) with nearly all factors having pp-bounded order.

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@article{arxiv.1410.8096,
  title  = {Longer nilpotent series for classical unipotent subgroups},
  author = {Joshua Maglione},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8096},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures

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