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Subring subgroups in symplectic groups in characteristic 2

Rings and Algebras 2016-08-08 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

In 2012 the second author obtained a description of the lattice of subgroupsof a Chevalley group G(Φ,A)G(\Phi,A), containing the elementary subgroup E(Φ,K)E(\Phi,K) over a subring KAK\subseteq A provided Φ=Bn,\Phi=B_n, CnC_n or F4F_4, n2n\ge2, and 22 is invertible in KK. It turns out that this lattice splits into a disjoint union of "sandwiches", parametrized by intermediate subrings between KK and AA. In the current article a similar result is proved for Φ=Bn\Phi=B_n or CnC_n, n3n\ge3, and 2=02=0 in KK. In this settings one has to introduce more sandwiches, namely, the sandwiches are parametrized by form rings (R,Λ)(R,\Lambda) such that KΛRAK\subseteq\Lambda\subseteq R\subseteq A. In particular, this result, generalizes a part of Ya.\,N.\,Nuzhin's theorem of 2013 concerning root systems Φ=Bn,\Phi=B_n, CnC_n, n3n\ge3, where the same description of the subgroup lattice is obtained under the condition that AA is an algebraic extension of~KK.

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@article{arxiv.1512.02289,
  title  = {Subring subgroups in symplectic groups in characteristic 2},
  author = {Anthony Bak and Alexei Stepanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02289},
  year   = {2016}
}
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