Irreducibility in algebraic groups and regular unipotent elements
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Abstract:
We study (connected) reductive subgroups $G$ of a reductive algebraic group $H$, where $G$ contains a regular unipotent element of $H$. The main result states that $G$ cannot lie in a proper parabolic subgroup of $H$. This result is new even in the classical case $H = \mathrm {SL}(n,F)$, the special linear group over an algebraically closed field, where a regular unipotent element is one whose Jordan normal form consists of a single block. In previous work, Saxl and Seitz (1997) determined the maximal closed positive-dimensional (not necessarily connected) subgroups of simple algebraic groups containing regular unipotent elements. Combining their work with our main result, we classify all reductive subgroups of a simple algebraic group $H$ which contain a regular unipotent element.References
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Additional Information
- Donna Testerman
- Affiliation: École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, FSB-MATHGEOM, Station 8, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- MR Author ID: 265736
- Email: donna.testerman@epfl.ch
- Alexandre Zalesski
- Affiliation: Departimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, University of Milano-Bicocca, 53 via R. Cozzi, Milan, 20125, Italy
- MR Author ID: 196858
- Email: alexandre.zalesski@gmail.com
- Received by editor(s): April 23, 2011
- Published electronically: August 16, 2012
- Communicated by: Pham Huu Tiep
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 141 (2013), 13-28
- MSC (2010): Primary 20G05, 20G07
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11898-2
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