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Representations of elementary abelian p-groups and finite subgroups of fields

Commutative Algebra 2018-08-06 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

Suppose F\mathbb{F} is a field of prime characteristic pp and EE is a finite subgroup of the additive group (F,+)(\mathbb{F},+). Then EE is an elementary abelian pp-group. We consider two such subgroups, say EE and EE', to be equivalent if there is an αF:=F{0}\alpha\in\mathbb{F}^*:=\mathbb{F}\setminus\{0\} such that E=αEE=\alpha E'. In this paper we show that rational functions can be used to distinguish equivalence classes of subgroups and, for subgroups of prime rank or rank less than twelve, we give explicit finite sets of separating invariants.

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@article{arxiv.1610.03709,
  title  = {Representations of elementary abelian p-groups and finite subgroups of fields},
  author = {H. E. A. Campbell and J. Chuai and R. J. Shank and D. L. Wehlau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03709},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

There has been a minor change of title from the previous version. We have expanded the introduction, simplified some of the proofs and corrected a number of minor errors. The document is now 25 pages