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Describing the outer automorphism of a special unitary group in terms of the Hermitian form

$\DeclareMathOperator\U{U}\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$Let $h$ be a non-degenerate Hermitian form on $\mathbb{C}^n$ with signature $(p,q)$. Let $\U_h$ denote the associated ...
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Conjugacy classes in centralizers

Let $G$ be a complex reductive group, let $g$ be an element, and let $C$ be the connected component of its centralizer. I'm curious about what is known about the intersection of conjugacy classes in $...
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Compute the discriminant for reductive groups

Consider $G=GL_{2}$ and $F=k((\pi))$, and a diagonal matrix $t=\left(\begin{array}{cc}a&0\\0&b\end{array}\right)$. The characteristic polynomial of $t$ is $X^{2}-(a+b)X+ab$, and the ...
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Unimodular matrices fixing $(1, 1, \cdots, 1)$

What is known about the subgroup of $GL(n, \mathbb Z)$ fixing (under left multiplication) the vector ${(1, 1, \cdots, 1)}^T$ ('T' denotes transposition). I'm particularly interested in the case $n = 5$...
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