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The essential dimension of the normalizer of a maximal torus in the projective linear group

Algebraic Geometry 2017-02-22 v1

Abstract

Let p be a prime, k be a field of characteristic different from p containing a primitive p-th root of unity and N be the normalizer of the maximal torus in the projective linear group PGLn. We compute the exact value of the essential dimension ed(N;p) of N at p for every n.

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@article{arxiv.0809.1688,
  title  = {The essential dimension of the normalizer of a maximal torus in the projective linear group},
  author = {Aurel Meyer and Zinovy Reichstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1688},
  year   = {2017}
}

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