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Springer Isomorphisms In Characteristic $p$

Representation Theory 2015-06-23 v4 Algebraic Geometry Group Theory

Abstract

Let GG be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic pp, and assume that pp is a very good prime for GG. Let PP be a parabolic subgroup whose unipotent radical UPU_P has nilpotence class less than pp. We show that there exists a particularly nice Springer isomorphism for GG which restricts to a certain canonical isomorphism Lie(UP)UP\text{Lie}(U_P) \xrightarrow{\sim} U_P defined by J.-P. Serre. This answers a question raised both by G. McNinch in \cite{M2}, and by J. Carlson \textit{et. al} in \cite{CLN}. For the groups SLn,SOnSL_n, SO_n, and Sp2nSp_{2n}, viewed in the usual way as subgroups of GLnGL_n or GL2nGL_{2n}, such a Springer isomorphism can be given explicitly by the Artin-Hasse exponential series.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1210.4629,
  title  = {Springer Isomorphisms In Characteristic $p$},
  author = {Paul Sobaje},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4629},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

final version to appear in Transformation Groups. Correction on use of "very good" prime, changed to "separably good", thank you to J. Pevtsova and J. Stark for pointing this out to us

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