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 pe and 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 ℜu(Gk¯) of the extension of scalars of G to the algebraic closure k¯ of k.
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 pe and 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 ℜu(Gk¯) of the extension of scalars of G to the algebraic closure k¯ of k.
Original language | English |
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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 | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2019 |
Bibliographical note
AcknowledgementsPart of the research for this paper was carried out while the authors were
staying at the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach supported by the “Research in Pairs” programme. The authors also acknowledge the financial support of EPSRC Grant EP/L005328/1 and Marsden Grant UOA1021.
We thank Brian Conrad for comments and discussion. We thank Gopal Prasad for some helpful hints to improve the results. We are also grateful to the referee for their comments.
Keywords
- ALGEBRAIC-GROUPS