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Algebraic varieties with group operations given by morphisms, or group objects in the category of algebraic varieties, the category of algebraic schemes, or closely related categories.

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Quotient of a reductive group by a non-smooth central finite subgroup

The quotient by any finite flat subgroup scheme always exists (see for example SGA 3:Exp V, Thm 7.1). In your case the subgroup scheme is of multiplicative type, the dual of a finite abelian group $A …
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Is a double centralizer type theorem ( encountered in semisimple algebras) true for algebra...

When $G=\mathrm{GL}_n$, then the centraliser $C$ of a subgroup scheme $H$ form the invertible elements of the algebra $M$ of matrices commuting with $H$. The group of such elements is Zariski dense in …
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Proof of Steinberg's tensor product theorem

[This was intended to be comment to Ben's reply but I exceeded the allowable limit for comments.] Actually it doesn't work over any ring. Just take any ring $R$ for which $GL(V)(R) \to PGL(V)(R)$ is …
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Is every homogeneous G-variety of the form G/H?

It depends on what you mean by "closed subgroup". If you mean a Zariski closed subset which forms a subgroup then the answer is no. If you mean a closed subgroup scheme, then the answer is yes. An exa …
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Comparing algebraic group orbits over big and small algebraically closed fields

I think this will work. There are a finite number of orbits of the action of $G$ on $X$ precisely when there is an open orbit and a finite number of orbits on the complement of the orbit. Hence, it is …
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Suzuki and Ree groups, from the algebraic group standpoint

It is not really a question of inner forms. What happens is that the algebraic group $G_2$ has an extra endomorphism $\varphi$ whose square is the Frobenius map (over the appropriate finite field). Ju …
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Simplicity of (complex) orthogonal groups

A reference with a small amount of patching to do is Bourbakie: Groupes et algèbres de Lie, Chap IV, 2.7, it uses the theory of BN-pairs (which there are called Tits systems). It is shows that the onl …
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Principal bundles over groups

There is the Grothendieck theory of bitorsors (see e.g. SGA 7, Exp VII) which gives an abstract answer to this question. The key point is that when you have an actual group extension you do not just h …
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Central extensions of group schemes

If we have a central extension of group schemes $1\rightarrow B \rightarrow C\rightarrow A\rightarrow1$ with $A$ abelian, then we get a commutator mapping $\Lambda^2A\rightarrow B$ (of sheaves as $\La …
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Connected extensions of finite by connected algebraic groups

In Groupes algébriques et corps de classes Serre classifies the $2$-dimensional commutative unipotent connected algebraic groups $G$ (VII:11). With the exception of the product of the additive group w …
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What algebraic group does Tannaka-Krein reconstruct when fed the category of modules of a no...

After some thought my pessimism (as expressed in my concurrence with the answer of Milne) has abated somewhat. If I were bold enough I would conjecture the following (assuming that the characteristic …
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