Hypercentral Series and Paired Intersections of Sylow Subgroups of Chevalley Groups

Let G(k) be the Chevalley group of normal type associated with a root system G = , or of twisted type G = ^m,m = 2,3, over a field K. Its root subgroups X_s, for all possible s G⁺, generate a maximal unipotent subgroup U = UG(k) if p = charK < 0, U is a Sylow p-subgroup of G(K). We examine G and K for which there exists a paired intersection U U⁹, g G(K), which is not conjugate in G(K) to a normal subgroup of U. If K is a finite field, this is equivalent to a condition that the normalizer of U U⁹ in G(K)has a p-multiple index. Put p() = max(r,r)/(s,s) | r,s . We prove a statement (Theorem 1) saying the following. Let G(K) be a Chevalley group of Lie rank greater than 1 over a finite field K of characteristic p and U be its Sylow p-subgroup equal to UG(K); also, either G = and p() is distinct from p and 1, or G(K) is a twisted group. Then G(K) contains a monomial element n such that the normalizer U of Uⁿ in G(K) has a p-multiple index. Let K be an associative commutative ring with unity and (K,J) be a congruence subgroup of the Chevalley group (K) modulo a nilpotent ideal J. We examine an hypercentral series 1 Z₁ Z₂ ... Z_c-1 of the group U(K) (K,J). Theorem 2 shows that under an extra restriction on the quotient (J_t : J) of ideals, central series are related via Z_i = T_c-iC, 1 i < c, where C is a subgroup of central diagonal elements. Such a connection exists, in particular, if K = Z_pm and J = (p^d), 1 d < m, d| m.