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Stably Cayley semisimple groups

Algebraic Geometry 2021-01-05 v4 Group Theory

Abstract

A linear algebraic group G over a field k is called a Cayley group if it admits a Cayley map, i.e. a G-equivariant birational isomorphism over k between the group variety G and its Lie algebra Lie(G). A prototypical example is the classical "Cayley transform" for the special orthogonal group SO(n) defined by Arthur Cayley in 1846. A linear algebraic k-group G is called stably Cayley if G×SG \times S is Cayley for some split k-torus S. We classify stably Cayley semisimple groups over an arbitrary field k of characteristic 0.

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@article{arxiv.1401.5774,
  title  = {Stably Cayley semisimple groups},
  author = {Mikhail Borovoi and Boris Kunyavskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5774},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

28 pages. The error noticed by the referee has been corrected

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