Overgroups of regular unipotent elements in reductive groups

Michael Bate; Ben Martin; Gerhard  Röhrle

doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/fms.2021.82

Overgroups of regular unipotent elements in reductive groups

Michael Bate^* (Corresponding Author), Ben Martin, Gerhard Röhrle

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Abstract

We study reductive subgroups H of a reductive linear algebraic group G - possibly nonconnected - such that H contains a regular unipotent element of G. We show that under suitable hypotheses, such subgroups are G-irreducible in the sense of Serre. This generalises results of Malle, Testerman and Zalesski. We obtain analogous results for Lie algebras and for finite groups of Lie type. Our proofs are short, conceptual and uniform.

Original language	English
Article number	e13
Number of pages	13
Journal	Forum of Mathematics, Sigma
Volume	10
Early online date	24 Feb 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/fms.2021.82
Publication status	Published - 24 Feb 2022

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G-irreducibility
G-complete reducibility
overgroups of regular unipotent elements
finite groups of Lie type

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