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Vector invariant fields of finite classical groups

Commutative Algebra 2020-03-02 v2 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

Let WW be an nn-dimensional vector space over a finite field Fq\mathbb{F}_q of any characteristic and mWmW denote the direct sum of mm copies of WW. Let Fq[mW]GL(W)\mathbb{F}_q[mW]^{{\rm GL}(W)} and Fq(mW)GL(W)\mathbb{F}_q(mW)^{{\rm GL}(W)} denote the vector invariant ring and vector invariant field respectively where GL(W){\rm GL}(W) acts on WW in the standard way and acts on mWmW diagonally. We prove that there exists a set of homogeneous invariant polynomials {f1,f2,,fmn}Fq[mW]GL(W)\{f_{1},f_{2},\ldots,f_{mn}\}\subseteq \mathbb{F}_q[mW]^{{\rm GL}(W)} such that Fq(mW)GL(W)=Fq(f1,f2,,fmn).\mathbb{F}_q(mW)^{{\rm GL}(W)}=\mathbb{F}_q(f_{1},f_{2},\ldots,f_{mn}). We also prove the same assertions for the special linear groups and the symplectic groups in any characteristic, and the unitary groups and the orthogonal groups in odd characteristic.

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@article{arxiv.1812.04781,
  title  = {Vector invariant fields of finite classical groups},
  author = {Yin Chen and Zhongming Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04781},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

15 pages; some errors have been corrected

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