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Semisimplification for subgroups of reductive algebraic groups

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2020

Michael Bate,
Benjamin Martin and
Gerhard Röhrle
Michael Bate
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom; E-mail: michael.bate@york.ac.uk
Benjamin Martin
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Fraser Noble Building, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, United Kingdom; E-mail: b.martin@abdn.ac.uk
Gerhard Röhrle
Affiliation:
Fakultät für Mathematik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany; E-mail: gerhard.roehrle@rub.de

Abstract

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Let G be a reductive algebraic group—possibly non-connected—over a field k, and let H be a subgroup of G. If $G= {GL }_n$, then there is a degeneration process for obtaining from H a completely reducible subgroup $H'$ of G; one takes a limit of H along a cocharacter of G in an appropriate sense. We generalise this idea to arbitrary reductive G using the notion of G-complete reducibility and results from geometric invariant theory over non-algebraically closed fields due to the authors and Herpel. Our construction produces a G-completely reducible subgroup $H'$ of G, unique up to $G(k)$-conjugacy, which we call a k-semisimplification of H. This gives a single unifying construction that extends various special cases in the literature (in particular, it agrees with the usual notion for $G= GL _n$ and with Serre’s ‘G-analogue’ of semisimplification for subgroups of $G(k)$ from [19]). We also show that under some extra hypotheses, one can pick $H'$ in a more canonical way using the Tits Centre Conjecture for spherical buildings and/or the theory of optimal destabilising cocharacters introduced by Hesselink, Kempf, and Rousseau.

Keywords

semisimplificationG-complete reducibilitygeometric invariant theoryrationalitycocharacter-closed orbitsdegeneration of G-orbits

MSC classification

Primary:20G15: Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields
Secondary:14L24: Geometric invariant theory

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Type
Algebra
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Forum of Mathematics, Sigma , Volume 8 , 2020, e43
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