On the isotropy group of a simple derivation
Abstract
Let be a polynomial ring in variables over a field of charactersitic zero and a -derivation of . Consider the isotropy group if : . In his doctoral thesis, Baltazar proved that if is a simple Shamsuddin derivation of , then its isotropy group is trivial. He also gave an example of a non-simple derivation whose isotropy group is infinite. Recently, Mendes and Pan generalized this result to an arbitrary derivation of proving that a derivation of is simple if, and only if, its isotropy group is trivial. In this paper, we prove that the isotropy group of a simple Shamsuddin derivation of the polynomial ring is trivial. We also calculate other isotropy groups of (not necessarily simple) derivations of and prove that they are finite cyclic groups.
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@article{arxiv.1608.04027,
title = {On the isotropy group of a simple derivation},
author = {Luciene Bertoncello and Daniel Levcovitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04027},
year = {2016}
}
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8 pages