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Chevalley supergroups

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R. Fioresi, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna, piazza di Porta San Donato, 5 — I-40127 Bologna, Italy and F. Gavarini, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, via della ricerca scientifica 1 — I-00133 Roma, Italy

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 2012; Volume 215, Number 1014
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5300-9 (print); 978-0-8218-8521-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0065-9266-2011-00633-7
Published electronically: May 3, 2011
Keywords: Algebraic supergroups
MSC: Primary 14M30, 14A22; Secondary 58A50, 17B50

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preliminaries
  • 3. Chevalley bases and Chevalley algebras
  • 4. Kostant superalgebras
  • 5. Chevalley supergroups
  • 6. The cases $A(1,1) \,$, $P(3)$ and $Q(n)$
  • A. Sheafification

Abstract

In the framework of algebraic supergeometry, we give a construction of the scheme-theoretic supergeometric analogue of split reductive algebraic group- schemes, namely affine algebraic supergroups associated to simple Lie superalgebras of classical type. In particular, all Lie superalgebras of both basic and strange types are considered. This provides a unified approach to most of the algebraic supergroups considered so far in the literature, and an effective method to construct new ones.

Our method follows the pattern of a suitable scheme-theoretic revisitation of Chevalley’s construction of semisimple algebraic groups, adapted to the reductive case. As an intermediate step, we prove an existence theorem for Chevalley bases of simple classical Lie superalgebras and a PBW-like theorem for their associated Kostant superalgebras.

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