A geometric approach to complete reducibility |
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Authors: | Michael Bate Benjamin Martin and Gerhard Röhrle |
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Institution: | (1) School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK;(2) Mathematics and Statistics Department, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 1, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Let G be a connected reductive linear algebraic group. We use geometric methods to investigate G-completely reducible subgroups of G, giving new criteria for G-complete reducibility. We show that a subgroup of G is G-completely reducible if and only if it is strongly reductive in G; this allows us to use ideas of R.W. Richardson and Hilbert–Mumford–Kempf from geometric invariant theory. We deduce that a normal subgroup of a G-completely reducible subgroup of G is again G-completely reducible, thereby providing an affirmative answer to a question posed by J.-P. Serre, and conversely we prove that the normalizer of a G-completely reducible subgroup of G is again G-completely reducible. Some rationality questions and applications to the spherical building of G are considered. Many of our results extend to the case of non-connected G. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 20G15, 14L24, 20E42 |
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