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The underlying variety of a linear elgebraic group (say, over an algebraically closed field) is affine, so doesn't have nontrivial (infinitesimal) deformations. I'm curious to know whether it's possible to deform the group structure on a fixed variety (that admits at least a structure of an algebraic group).

Edit: I should have added, though when I wrote the question I mistakenly didn't expect reductivity made any difference, that I was mostly interested in reductive groups (in which case the comment of user54268 shows my question was not that naive after all..).

The underlying variety of a linear elgebraic group (say, over an algebraically closed field) is affine, so doesn't have nontrivial (infinitesimal) deformations. I'm curious to know whether it's possible to deform the group structure on a fixed variety (that admits at least a structure of an algebraic group).

The underlying variety of a linear elgebraic group (say, over an algebraically closed field) is affine, so doesn't have nontrivial (infinitesimal) deformations. I'm curious to know whether it's possible to deform the group structure on a fixed variety (that admits at least a structure of an algebraic group).

Edit: I should have added, though when I wrote the question I mistakenly didn't expect reductivity made any difference, that I was mostly interested in reductive groups (in which case the comment of user54268 shows my question was not that naive after all..).

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Are linear algebraic groups rigid?

The underlying variety of a linear elgebraic group (say, over an algebraically closed field) is affine, so doesn't have nontrivial (infinitesimal) deformations. I'm curious to know whether it's possible to deform the group structure on a fixed variety (that admits at least a structure of an algebraic group).