Remarks on Semistability of G-Bundles in Positive Characteristic

We analyzes a notion of strong semistability of principal G-bundles by including reduction to nonreduced parabolic subgroup schemes. It turns out that strong semistability is equivalent to the Frobenius semistability of Ramanan and Rananathan. We also give a bound for nonstrongly semsitability of a semistable GL(n)-bundle improving a previous result of Shepherd-Barron.