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A scheme-faithful action fixing a point has a faithful finite jet representation
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a separated finite-type -group scheme and a reduced irreducible separated finite-type -scheme, with . Suppose acts scheme faithfully on , or acts scheme faithfully by birational transformations, and the rational action's regular domain contains with constant restriction as a scheme morphism. Then has a faithful finite-dimensional representation on for sufficiently large , and is affine. Scheme faithfulness means that, for every test scheme, only the identity group point acts as the identity transformation; pointwise faithfulness on -points is insufficient.
Facts & Assumptions
A finite-type group homomorphism with trivial scheme kernel is a closed immersion. (Finite-type algebraic group monomorphisms are closed immersions)
The powers of the maximal ideal of a Noetherian local ring have zero intersection. (The Krull intersection is the -torsion submodule, and it vanishes in the Jacobson-radical case)
Proof
Given: AC, , and the scheme-faithful action with the stated regular fixed-point neighbourhood.
Put . Its product with has underlying space and hence lies in the regular domain. The fixed-point identity makes the point ideal stable and therefore makes its powers stable; the action restricts to . Group identities restrict as well, yielding a representation with . Indeed after any affine base change the automorphism is a linear automorphism of the free module with basis , so its matrix entries are regular and its determinant invertible. The spaces are finite dimensional because the local ring is Noetherian and its residue field is . The kernels are closed, descend with , and stabilize to a closed subgroup by the ascending chain condition on their ideal sheaves and a finite affine cover of .
The subgroup acts as the identity on every . Cover by affine charts and choose an affine neighbourhood of in . In the regular-action case the equalizer ideal of action and projection restricts to zero in for all . In the rational case, cover the fixed-point slice by principal open neighbourhoods in the regular domain. The specialization is invertible after localizing at it, and these localizations cover . On each such chart the equalizer ideal is generated by fractions with powers of as denominators. This denominator is invertible in every finite jet ring, since its constant specialization is a unit. Thus identity on every jet forces each numerator to have zero image in for all , with now that localized chart ring. Expand a numerator using finitely many -linearly independent coefficients in ; its local-ring coefficients lie in every power of and are zero by [F2]. Since is integral, its coordinate ring injects into , and tensoring over preserves injectivity. The numerator is therefore zero already. Hence the action and projection agree on these nonempty source neighbourhoods. The integral makes such a neighbourhood schematically dense after tensoring with any : restriction of its coordinate rings embeds into . Consequently acts identically as a scheme-valued birational transformation, and identically everywhere in the regular-action case by the same schematic density. Scheme faithfulness gives .
For a stabilizing , has trivial scheme kernel and is a closed immersion by [F1]. The target is affine, so is affine. The proof retains infinitesimal kernels and does not infer faithfulness from ordinary rational points. AC is inherited from [F1]–[F2].
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Sources
- Milne, Algebraic Groups (2022), Proposition 8.9, p.150 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Brion, Some structure theorems for algebraic groups, Proposition 3.1.6, pp.28-29 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Brion-Samuel-Uma, Lectures, Proposition 2.3.2 rational-action adaptation (standard reference, not scraped)