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The Centralizer of a Nilpotent Section

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2016

George J. McNinch
George J. McNinch*
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Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, 503 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA, george.mcninch@tufts.edu, mcninchg@member.ams.org
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Let F be an algebraically closed field and let G be a semisimple F-algebraic group for which the characteristic of F is very good. If X ∈ Lie(G) = Lie(G)(F) is a nilpotent element in the Lie algebra of G, and if C is the centralizer in G of X, we show that (i) the root datum of a Levi factor of C, and (ii) the component group C/C° both depend only on the Bala-Carter label of X; i.e. both are independent of very good characteristic. The result in case (ii) depends on the known case when G is (simple and) of adjoint type.

The proofs are achieved by studying the centralizer of a nilpotent section X in the Lie algebra of a suitable semisimple group scheme over a Noetherian, normal, local ring . When the centralizer of X is equidimensional on Spec(), a crucial result is that locally in the étale topology there is a smooth -subgroup scheme L of such that Lt is a Levi factor of for each t ∈ Spec ().

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20G15

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Nagoya Mathematical Journal , Volume 190 , 2008, pp. 129 - 181
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 2008

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