Weyl's polarization theorem in positive characteristic
Abstract
Let be an -dimensional algebraic representation over an algebraically closed field of a group . For , we study the invariant rings for the diagonal action of on . In characteristic zero, a theorem of Weyl tells us that we can obtain all the invariants in by the process of polarization and restitution from . In particular, this means that if is generated in degree , then so is no matter how large is. There are several explicit counterexamples to Weyl's theorem in positive characteristic. However, when is a (connected) reductive affine group scheme over and is a good -module, we show that Weyl's theorem holds in sufficiently large characteristic. As a special case, we consider the ring of invariants for the left-right action of on -tuples of matrices. In this case, we show that the invariants of degree suffice to generate if the characteristic is larger than .
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@article{arxiv.1803.03602,
title = {Weyl's polarization theorem in positive characteristic},
author = {Harm Derksen and Visu Makam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.03602},
year = {2018}
}
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17 pages