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Do tori in a symplectic group always have invariant maximal isotropic subspaces?

When $K$ is finite or $p$-adic the answer to your question is negative. Indeed there exist maximal tori which are anisotropic. Those tori are not included in any proper parabolic subgroup, so they can …
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