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Algebraic groups over the field with one element

Algebraic Geometry 2009-07-23 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

Remarks in a paper by Jacques Tits from 1956 led to a philosophy how a theory of split reductive groups over \F1\F_1, the so-called field with one element, should look like. Namely, every split reductive group over Z\Z should descend to \F1\F_1, and its group of \F1\F_1-rational points should be its Weyl group. We connect the notion of a torified variety to the notion of \F1\F_1-schemes as introduced by Connes and Consani. This yields models of toric varieties, Schubert varieties and split reductive groups as \Fun\Fun-schemes. We endow the class of \F1\F_1-schemes with two classes of morphisms, one leading to a satisfying notion of \F1\F_1-rational points, the other leading to the notion of an algebraic group over \F1\F_1 such that every split reductive group is defined as an algebraic group over \F1\F_1. Furthermore, we show that certain combinatorics that are expected from parabolic subgroups of \GL(n)\GL(n) and Grassmann varieties are realized in this theory.

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@article{arxiv.0907.3824,
  title  = {Algebraic groups over the field with one element},
  author = {Oliver Lorscheid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3824},
  year   = {2009}
}
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