Questions tagged [reductive-groups]
A reductive group is an algebraic group $G$ over an algebraically closed field such that the unipotent radical of $G$ is trivial
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Weyl group of the restriction of scalars of split reductive group
Let $G$ be a connected algebraic group defined over a field $E$ of characteristic $0$. Suppose $G$ reductive $E$-split and let $T \subset G$ a maximal (split) torus defined over $E$.
Set $G' = Res_{E/...
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Steinberg reps of reductive groups over local fields vs finite fields
Let $G$ be a reductive group over a non-archimedean field $F$ with reisdue field $f$.
Edit: The statements only make sense modulo tensoring by one-dimensional representations.
Are the unitary, ...
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a conjugacy question in quasi-split reductive groups
I have a somewhat technical question about conjugacy in
quasi-reductive groups.
Let $k$ be a field (in my main case interest, $k$ is finite), $G$ be a connected
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Reconciling Lusztig's results with the Langlands philosophy
Let $\boldsymbol{G}$ be a reductive group over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, $G = \boldsymbol{G}(\mathbb{F}_q)$, $W = \mathrm{W}(\mathbb{F}_q)$ the Witt vectors over $\mathbb{F}_q$, and $K = \mathrm{...
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What are the possible motivic Galois groups over $\mathbb Q$?
Let $E$ be a motive over $\mathbb Q$. (I should precise, that by a motive I mean
here a pure motive over $\mathbb Q$, with coefficients in $\mathbb Q$, that I see here as a conjectural object which ...
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Volume of PGL(2,F) \ PGL(2, A)
Let $F$ be a global field. What is the measure of $PGL_2(F) \backslash PGL_2(\mathbb{A})$?
This depends of course on the normalizations of the Haar measures on $PGL_2(F)$ and $PGL_2(\mathbb{A})$. ...
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Do there exist pseudo-reductive (but not reductive) groups of small dimension?
I am working on questions in linear algebraic groups $k$, where $k$ is a local field of positive characteristic $p$. I would like to exclude some bad behaviour using the assumption that $p$ is ...
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Is the normalizer of a reductive subgroup reductive?
Let $G$ be a reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field (of characteristic zero if it matters) and $H \subset G$ a subgroup, also reductive. Is the identity component of the ...
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Does there exist a categorical treatment of root data(systems)?
What I am looking for is an abstract description of root data with their morphisms(!) plus a comparison with the categories of reductive groups over some field, Dynkin diagrams, Lie algebras, ...
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Are all irreducible supercuspidal representation induced from compact-mod-center subgroups?
Let $G$ be a reductive group over a local non-archimedean field $F$.
Can every irreducible supercuspidal representation of $G(F)$ be realized as the induction from an open subgroup, which is compact ...
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description of an endomorphism algebra
Let $G$ be a reductive group, $F$ a Frobenius morphism, $B$ a Borel subgroup $F$-stable and consider the finite groups $G^F$ and $U^F$ where $U$ is the radical unipotent of $B=UT$ ($T$ torus).
I ...
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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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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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moduli problem for flag varieties?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Invariant functor for admissible representations of reductive groups over local fields
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I have a question concerning a certain functor between represention categories. I'm rather sure this is already known, but I could not find a reference.
Let $F$ be a local non-archimedean ...
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Maximal torus and parabolic subgroups in reductive groups over finite fields
Let $G$ be a reductive group, $B_0$ a $F$-stable Borel subgroup and $T_0$ a fixed $F$-stable maximal torus contained in $B_0$. ($F$ = Frobenius morphism).
Let $r$ be the semisimple $\mathbb{F}_q$-rank ...
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Explicit formula for the trace of an unramified principal series representation of $GL(n,K)$, $K$ $p$-adic.
Let $K$ be a non-arch local field (I'm only interested in the char 0 case), let $\mathbb{G}$ be a connected reductive group over $K$ and let $G=\mathbb{G}(K)$. If $V$ is a smooth irreducible complex ...
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Is an affine "G-variety" with reductive stabilizers a toric variety?
Let $X=Spec(A)$ be a reduced normal affine scheme over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $0$, with an action of a connected reductive group $G$. Suppose
$x\in X$ is a $G$-...
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If Spec(A) has a G-fixed point and a dense G-orbit, is Spec(A) a cone?
[Edited to include a dense orbit]
Let $X=Spec(A)$ be a normal affine scheme over an algebraically closed field $k$, with an action of a linearly reductive group $G$. Suppose $x\in X$ is a $G$-...
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Behaviour of Hilbert functions
Let $G$ be a complex simple reductive group. Then the set of isomorphy classes $Irr G$ is isomorphic to the set of dominant weights $\Lambda_+$ in the weight lattice of the maximal torus of a Borel ...
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If a representation has enough reductive stabilizers, is it a direct sum of characters?
Suppose $G\to GL(V)$ is a linear representation of an irreducible algebraic group over a field $k$.
Suppose $C\subseteq V$ is a $G$-invariant closed cone that spans $V$, and that the stabilizer of ...