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Heisenberg group in characteristic two
I have seen two constructions called the Heisenberg group. If $k$ is a field of characteristic not equal to $2$ and $V$ is a $2n$-dimensional vector space over $k$ with symplectic form $\omega : V \...
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Is the absolute Galois group of the field of Laurent series in positive characteristic finitely generated?
If $K$ is an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$, then $K((t))$, the field of Laurent series with coefficients in $K$, has infinitely many Galois extensions of degree $p$. Indeed, ...
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Classification of fibres in pencils of curves of genus two
For the case of characteristic positive, there exist some clasification of families of curves of genus two over a elliptic curve?.
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commuting elements in a reductive group
Does anyone know if the following holds?
Conjecture: Any two commuting elements in a reductive algebraic group G over C of rank>1 lie in a proper parabolic subgroup of G.
To make things easier, you ...
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Pseudo coefficients and orbital integrals
I am looking for a reference/idea, how this passage from Labesse's Snowbird Lecture "Introduction to endoscopy" pg.5 can be explained:
"We shall denote by $f_\pi$ a pseudo-coefficient for $\pi$, ...
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Heights in reductive groups
Let $G$ be a reductive group over a local non-archimedean field $F$, and let $B$ a Borel subgroup. For my purposes, the case $G = GL_2(\mathbb{Q}_p)$ will be sufficient with $B$ upper triangular ...
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deRham cohomoloy of CM liftings of Jacobians
Let $k$ be field of characteristic $p>0$ and $W=W(k)$ the ring of Witt vectors of $k$. We call a smooth curve over $k$, ordinary, when the Jacobian of $J(X)$ of $X$ is an ordinary abelian variety. ...
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What are supersingular varieties?
For varieties over a field of characteristic $p$, I saw people talking about supersingular varieties.
I wanted to ask "why are supersingular varieties interesting". However, as I don't want to ask an ...
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homogenous bundles
Let $G$ be a reductive algebraic group over $\mathbb{C}$ and $H$ be an algebraic subgroup of $G$. We suppose that $H$ acts on some scheme $S$, where $S$ is of finite type over $\mathbb{C}$. Then I ...
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Explicit description of O^{cris}_n in Fontaine/Messing
Let $k$ be a perfect field of characteristic $p$, $W(k)$ the Witt ring and $K$ its quotient field. In their article "$p$-adic periods and $p$-adic etale cohomology" Fontaine and Messing give in II.1.4 ...
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moduli problem for flag varieties?
Hi,
Suppose $G$ is a reductive group over an algebraiclly closed field $k$
(suppose $k$ of char zero if you want at first). Let $X$ be its flag variety.
Question: What is the moduli problem that $X$ ...
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Intertwining Integral defined on a Weyl group?
Why does the intertwining integral such as the one defined in A. W. Knapp's paper "Intertwining operators for semisimple groups" depend only on an element w of a Weyl group?
http://www.jstor.org/...
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When is compact induction in GL(2) from an open compact group admissible?
Let $G$ be a locally profinite group and $K$ an open compact subgroup (mod the center), then Bushnell has shown that the following three statements are equivalent for a finite dimensional ...
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Exact sequence of Weyl groups
If we note $A_{k}$ the category of affine algebraic groups defined over $k$ and $\mathcal{G}$ the category of finite groups, we have a functor $W:A_{k}\longrightarrow \mathcal{G}$, where $W(G)$ is the ...
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Abel transform is an * isomorphism for SL(2, R)
Assume we conisder $G= SL(2, R)$, $K=SO(2)$ and $N$ the strict upper triangular matrices in $G$, $A$ diagonal matrices, and the Borel supgroup $B=NA$, $W$ Weyl group.
Then we have an isomorphism of $*...
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Canonical rational form for $SL(n)$
The canonical rational form helps us to parametrize the conjugacy classes in $GL(n)$ over any commutative field.
How can we parametriize the conjugacy classes in $SL_n(k)$, where $k$ is an ...
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Representation theory of G1 versus G/Z
Let $G$ be an locally compact group $G$, then every irreucible representations $\pi$ is isomorphic to $\omega_{\pi} \otimes \pi'$, where $\omega_{\pi}$ is the central character of $\pi$ and $\pi'$ an ...
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What is this measure on the affine Weyl group?
Let $G$ be $SL(n, F)$ for a non-archimedean local field $F$ with Iwahori subgroup $I$. Let $\mu$ be the Haar measure of $G$.
What are the properties of the function $w\mapsto \mu(IwI)/\mu(I)$ for $w$...
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Is there a really big ring of differential operators in characteristic p?
$k$ is a field of characteristic $p$.
$k[t]$ has canonical first-order differential operator $\partial$
As an endomorphism of $k[t]$, $\partial^p=0$.
First way to fix it:
Use the divided power ...
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Conjugation in GL(n) (p-adic setting)
In $GL(n, \mathbb{Q}_p)$, what are the orbits under conjugation of $GL(n, \mathbb{Z}_p)$?
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Parabolic induction GL(n,Zp)
Let $P$ be a parabolic subgroup of $GL(n)$ with Levi decomposition $P =MN$, where $N$ is the unipotent radical.
Let $\pi$ be an irreducible representation of $M(\mathbf{Z}_p)$ inflated to $P(\mathbf{...
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Representations of GL(2, Q_p) and GL(2, Z_p)
The cuspidal representations of $\operatorname{GL}_n(F)$ a non archimedean field $F$ with ring of integers $o$ can be classified by inducing irreducible representation from $Z\operatorname{GL}_n(o)$.
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Parabolic subgroups and BN-pairs
We note $G$ a connected algebraic group, $T$ a maximal torus in $G$, $B$ a Borel subgroup containing $T$. We put also, $N=N_{G}(T)$ the normalizer of $T$ in $G$. We know that $(B,N)$ is a BN-pair of $...
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Conjugation of faces in root systems / of parabolic subgroups having same Levi in split reductive groups
If $(V,\Phi)$ is a root system of rank $n$, one knows that its Weyl group $W$ acts simply and transitively on Weyl chambers. But in general, if $d\lt n$, the action of $W$ on faces of dimension $d$ is ...
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Deformation space of non-ordinary abelian varieties
It is a well known result of Serre and Tate that if $A$ is an ordinary abelian variety over a field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$, then the deformation space $\mathcal{M}$ of $A$ to an abelian ...
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Character determines the representation?
Consider a semisimple Lie group or a $p$ adic reductive group $G$.
To what extent can the character of a representation as a distribution on $C_c^\infty(G)$ determine the representation?
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Proofs in the same vein as Ax-Grothendieck
I would like to see other examples of (ideas of) proofs and results in the same vein as the proof of the Ax-Grothendieck theorem. To explain what I mean by "in the same vein", I will quote from the ...
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Twisted Gelfand pairs (Reference and examples)
Let $G$ be a locally compact group and let $K$ be a compact group. Let $(\tau, V_\tau)$ be an irreducible representation of $K$.
We consider the space of $Endo_K(\tau)$-valued, compactly supported ...
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Do there exist weak Lefschetz-type statements that were proved for varieties over complex numbers, but were not proved in finite characteristic?
As far as I understood the situation (reading section 3.5B of Lazarsfeld's "Positivity in algebraic geometry" and also some of the references), some of weak Lefschetz-type statements known rely on '...
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Minimal Model Program for surfaces over algebraically closed fields of characteristic p
Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$.
I have been trying to find out unsuccessfully if there is a mmp for algebraic surfaces over $k$. I know minimal surfaces are ...
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Cartan decomposition for upper triangular matrices
Due to the comments, I have the impression that I have to be more precise.
Consider $G= GL_n(F)$ for a non-Archimedean field $F$ with ring of integers $o$.
Let $K= GL_n(o)$ and let $I$ the Iwahori ...
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Algorithm for the cell multiplication rule for GL(n,F)
Consider $F$ a non archimedean field and let $o$ be its ring of integer
Let $B$ be the Iwahori subgroup of $GL_n(F)$ (resp. $GL_n(o)$) and let $N$ be the normalizer of the diagonal matrices (...
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understanding Milne's article "Duality in the flat cohomology of a surface"
I have trouble understanding a point of Milne's article "Duality in the flat cohomology of a surface" http://jmilne.org/math/articles/1976a.pdf
see the "Alternatively" on p. 177, paragraph before ...
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What is the normalization factor for $GL_n( \mathbb{Q}_p) // GL_n( \mathbb{\mathbb{Z}_p})$?
Consider $G = GL_n( \mathbb{Q}_p)$ and $K = GL_n( \mathbb{Z}_p)$, or more favorable replace $ \mathbb{Q}_p$ by a non archimedean field and $\mathbb{Z}_p$ by the ring of integers.
Note that the space ...
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Normalizers of maximal compact groups?
Consider a reductive group over a local field. What is the normalizer of a maximal compact subgroup?
If this is to general, what is the normalizer of $GL(n, \mathbb{Z}_p)$ in $GL(n, \mathbb{Q}_p)$, ...
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What is a canonical set of representatives in $GL(n,F)$ for the vertices in the Bruhat Tits building?
$F$ is a non archimedean field here. To be more precise, I would actually prefer a set of representative in $B(F)$ for the discrete space $B(F) / B(o)Z(F)$?
This can be phrased also as question about ...
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Invertible Hasse-Witt for non-ordinary curves
Assume that $S$ is a smooth curve of over a field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$ and $f\colon X\to S$ is a relative curve over $S$ (i.e., the fibers are curves). It is well-known that when all the ...
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Finite connected groups over a perfect field of characteristic p
In 14.4 of "Introduction to Affine Group Schemes" it is proved (!) that if $A$ represents a finite connected group scheme over a perfect field $k$ of characteristic $p$ then $A$ has the form $k[X_{1}, ...
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Can the intersection of a maximal parabolic with a closed sub-group contain more than one maximal parabolic?
Suppose that we have a closed embedding $G_1\hookrightarrow G_2$ of reductive groups (say over $\mathbb{Q}$), and suppose that we have a maximal parabolic sub-group $P_2\subset G_2$, and a minimal ...
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On closed abelian reductive subgroups of Real reductive groups
Hello everybody. I would first like to apologise for the basic question; I'm not expert on Lie Theory. Can someone please help me with the following questions
Let $\mathrm{G}=\mathrm{K} \exp(\...
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Frobenius functor and length of local cohomology
Let $(R,\mathfrak{m})$ be a Noetherian local ring of positive prime characteristic $p$ and let $F$ be the Frobenius functor. Write $d$ for dimension of $R$. Assume that for some $0\leq i< d $ the ...
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How to understand the representation theory of $SL(n)$ from $GL(n)$?
Let $F$ be a local field. Consider the group extension (split)
$$ PSL(n,F) \rightarrow PGL(n,F) \rightarrow F^\times / (F^\times)^n.$$
What knowledge about $PGL(n)$ is necessary in order to understand ...
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Possible Borel subgroups of GL_n?
I am trying to understand the interaction between Borel subgroups of $GL_n$ and its roots. Is it correct to say that for any choice of roots among each pair of reciprocal roots
there is a Borel ...
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If $p=0$ and $df=0$, is $f$ a $p$th power?
This question is a follow-up to When does the relative differential $df=0$ imply that $f$ comes from the base?. There it was asked, for an $A$-algebra $B$, under what conditions does $df=0$ (in the ...
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reductive group orbits in P(V)?
Say $G$ is a reductive group over $\mathbb{C}$. We can take a dominant highest weight $\lambda$ and look at the action of $G$ on $X = \mathbb{P} V(\lambda)$. The stabilizer of the class of the ...
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Coherent cohomology of G/U, G = reductive group, B = TU Borel subgroup
Hi,
Let $G$ be an algebraic reductive group over an algebraically closed field $k$, $T$ a maximal torus and $B = TU$ a Borel subgroup containing it. I'm interested in computing $H^*(G/U,\mathcal O_{G/...
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Chevalley's Theorem on Constructible Sets
I'm having a hard time understanding the theorem in the title, more specifically the proof of the related fact that the image of a dominant morphism contains a dense open set of it's closure. (My ...
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Top chern class in positive characteristic
Given a nonsingular, projective variety $X$ of dimension $n$ over an algebraically closed field $k$.
Over $k=\mathbb{C}$, the top chern class $c_n(T_X)$ of the tangent sheaf is the Euler ...
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Inequalities between numerical invariants of nonsingular projective Varieties in positive Characteristic
It is well-known that Miyaoka and Yau-type inequalities do not hold in positive characteristic. In "a note on Bogomolov-Gieseker’s inequality in positive characteristic", however, we can ...
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CM liftings of abelian varieties and liftings of Frobenius
It is well-known that if $A$ is an ordinary abelian variety over a finite perfect field $ k$ of characteristic $ p>0$ and $ W=W(k)$ is the ring of Witt vectors over $ k$, then the canonical ...
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