The centralizer of a nilpotent section
| dc.creator | McNinch, George J. | |
| dc.date | 2006-05-23 | |
| dc.date | 2008-05-16 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:39:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:39:09Z | |
| dc.description | 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 in 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^o 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 C of a nilpotent section X in the Lie algebra of a suitable semisimple group scheme over a Noetherian, normal, local ring A. When the centralizer of X is equidimensional on Spec(A), a crucial result is that locally in the etale topology there is a smooth A-subgroup scheme L of CC such that L_t is a Levi factor of C_t for each t in Spec(A). | |
| dc.description | 34 pages. To appear in Nagoya Math. J. Dedicated to Toshiaki Shoji, on the occasion of his 60th birthday | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605626 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605626 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/161067 | |
| dc.subject | Representation Theory | |
| dc.subject | Algebraic Geometry | |
| dc.subject | 20G15 | |
| dc.title | The centralizer of a nilpotent section | |
| dc.type | text |