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| Oct 7, 2014 at 8:46 | comment | added | Henrik Winther | I edited in "in characteristic 0". My thought was that people interested in algebraic groups would read the answer by Dietrich, where this is explained, but I see now that it was confusing. | |
| Oct 7, 2014 at 8:43 | history | edited | Henrik Winther | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2014 at 17:19 | comment | added | Jim Humphreys | Actually, there need not exist a Levi decomposition for an algebraic group in prime characteristic. But in characteristic 0 Chevalley's old framework is applicable. (In either case, the Jordan decomposition for algebraic groups makes it somewhat more natural to deal with the unipotent radical and a possible reductive Levi factor.) | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 12:01 | history | wiki removed | S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Oct 6, 2014 at 8:55 | history | answered | Henrik Winther | CC BY-SA 3.0 |