Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Terminology, conventions, and notation
- Part I Constructions, examples, and structure theory
- Part II Standard presentations and their applications
- Part III General classification and applications
- 7 The exotic constructions
- 8 Preparations for classification in characteristics 2 and 3
- 9 The absolutely pseudo-simple groups in characteristic 2
- 10 General case
- 11 Applications
- Part IV Appendices
- References
- Index
7 - The exotic constructions
from Part III - General classification and applications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Terminology, conventions, and notation
- Part I Constructions, examples, and structure theory
- Part II Standard presentations and their applications
- Part III General classification and applications
- 7 The exotic constructions
- 8 Preparations for classification in characteristics 2 and 3
- 9 The absolutely pseudo-simple groups in characteristic 2
- 10 General case
- 11 Applications
- Part IV Appendices
- References
- Index
Summary
Calculations in characteristics 2 and 3
Over imperfect fields k of characteristics 2 and 3 there are pseudo-reductive groups that are not standard. Interesting classes of such groups (to be called exotic) were discovered by Tits, resting on special properties of the group G2 in characteristic 3 and the group F4 in characteristic 2, as well as groups of type Bn and Cn in characteristic 2 with n ≥ 2. A basic common feature of these types is that the unique pair of nonorthogonal positive simple roots {a, b} with distinct root lengths, say with a long and b short, satisfies 〈a, b∨〉 = -p. In other words, the Dynkin diagram has an edge with multiplicity p.
The definition of exotic pseudo-reductive k-groups requires a lot of preparation (essentially all of §§7.1-7.2), due to the intervention of subtleties related to the field of definition over k of a Levi ks-subgroup. (See Example 7.2.2.) The case of G2 provides everything we need for a complete result in characteristic 3.
Tits' method for constructing exotic examples in characteristics 2 and 3 uses general axiomatic arguments with root systems that he sketched in [Ti2, §5] over a separably closed field (and applied to the root systems of a split G2 in characteristic 3 and a split F4 in characteristic 2, as well as variants for types B and C in rank ≥ 2 in characteristic 2).
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- Pseudo-reductive Groups , pp. 217 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010