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Levi decomposition of nilpotent centralisers in classical groups

Group Theory 2016-11-04 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

We check that the connected centralisers of nilpotent elements in the orthogonal and symplectic groups have Levi decompositions in even characteristic. This provides a justification for the identification of the isomorphism classes of the reductive quotients as stated in [Liebeck, Seitz; Unipotent and Nilpotent Classes in Simple Algebraic Groups and Lie Algebras].

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@article{arxiv.1611.00937,
  title  = {Levi decomposition of nilpotent centralisers in classical groups},
  author = {Alex P. Babinski and David I. Stewart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.00937},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages

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