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Rational cohomology and Zariski dense subgroups of solvable linear algebraic groups

Group Theory 2026-04-14 v4

Abstract

In this article, we establish results concerning the cohomology of Zariski dense subgroups of solvable linear algebraic groups. We show that for an irreducible solvable Q\mathbb{Q}-defined linear algebraic group G\mathbf{G}, there exists an isomorphism between the cohomology rings with coefficients in a finite dimensional rational G\mathbf{G}-module MM of the associated Q\mathbb{Q}-defined Lie algebra gQ\mathfrak{g_\mathbb{Q}} and Zariski dense subgroups ΓG(Q)\Gamma \leq \mathbf{G}(\mathbb{Q}) that satisfy the condition that they intersect the Q\mathbb{Q}-split maximal torus discretely. We further prove that the restriction map in rational cohomology from G\mathbf{G} to a Zariski dense subgroup ΓG(Q)\Gamma \leq \mathbf{G}(\mathbb{Q}) with coefficients in MM is an injection. We then derive several results regarding finitely generated solvable groups of finite abelian rank and their representations on cohomology.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2409.09987,
  title  = {Rational cohomology and Zariski dense subgroups of solvable linear algebraic groups},
  author = {Milana Golich and Antonio López Neumann and Mark Pengitore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09987},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v2: 26 pages, fixed a gap pointed out by referee, simplified preliminaries, and added new author