On Unipotent Radicals of Pseudo-Reductive Groups

Michael Bate; Benjamin Martin; Gerhard Röhrle; David I. Stewart

doi:10.1307/mmj/1550480563

On Unipotent Radicals of Pseudo-Reductive Groups

Michael Bate, Benjamin Martin, Gerhard Röhrle, David I. Stewart

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Abstract

We establish some results on the structure of the geometric unipotent radicals of
pseudo-reductive k-groups. In particular, our main theorem gives bounds on the nilpotency class of geometric unipotent radicals of standard pseudo-reductive groups, which are sharp in many cases. A major part of the proof rests upon consideration of the following situation: let k^'be a purely inseparable
field extension of k of degree p^eand let G denote the Weil restriction of scalars Rk^'/k(G^') of a reductive k^'-group G^'. When G = Rk^'/k(G^') we also provide some results on the orders of elements of the unipotent radical ℜ_u(G_k¯) of the extension of scalars of G to the algebraic closure k^¯ of k.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	277-299
Number of pages	23
Journal	The Michigan Mathematical Journal
Volume	68
Issue number	2
Early online date	18 Feb 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1307/mmj/1550480563
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2019

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