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Standard Levi subgroups of a split reductive group
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice inherited from the named suppliers. Let be a split reductive group with root datum and a Borel subgroup with corresponding base (The root datum of a split reductive group), and let . Put , , and . Then: (a) is smooth connected reductive with maximal torus , root system and root datum , and Weyl group ; the root groups of are exactly the with ; (b) is the largest subtorus of killed by all , and is generated by and the root groups with ; (c) is a Borel subgroup of with positive system and base ; (d) for each , choose a rational fundamental dual vector with , and let be any positive integral multiple lying in . For every , every representative of in lies in , and this subgroup contains . Rational dual vectors need not themselves be integral cocharacters; a possible central component does not change the parabolic.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, a split reductive group with Borel subgroup and base , a subset , and the subgroups above.
Centralizers of tori in reductive groups are smooth, connected and reductive, with Lie algebra the fixed points under the adjoint action; the roots of a reductive group with a given maximal torus are the nonzero weights (Chevalley's centralizer theorem and reductive centralizers, The root datum of a split reductive group).
is generated by and its root groups, and each root group is determined by its weight; the positive system of a Borel and the base are related as in Combinatorics of a reduced root datum (Root subgroups of a split reductive group, The Weyl group, Borel subgroups and chambers).
Cocharacter limit subgroups: for a cocharacter of , contains exactly the root groups with and their root spaces (Cocharacter limit subgroups).
A Borel intersected with a torus centralizer is a Borel of that centralizer; its root signs are inherited. (Borel subgroups and the opposition of root groups; Milne17.72 and21.90.)
Proof
is smooth connected reductive by [F1]; its Lie algebra is because the characters vanishing on lie in the rational span of . Each root has integral coefficients in the simple basis, so a root in this rational span has zero coefficients outside and lies in . Hence the roots of are precisely the elements of , and the corresponding root groups are ; the coroot assignment restricts, and the Weyl group of is the subgroup generated by the with (these are the reflections in the simple roots of the subsystem). This proves (a).
is the largest subtorus of killed by all because any such subtorus lies in and, being a torus, in its maximal reduced subtorus; the character-module quotient by its torsion defines exactly that subtorus. By (a) and [F2] applied to , the group is generated by and the root groups with ; this proves (b). For (c): is a Borel subgroup of by the centralizer-intersection input [F4]; its Lie algebra is , so its positive system is , and the simple roots of the subsystem relative to this positive system are exactly the elements of (a simple root of lying in is indecomposable in , and every root of is a nonnegative combination of ).
Fix . Finite linear algebra supplies with the given simple-root pairings; clearing denominators gives integral , . For one has , so both and and the torus centralize this cocharacter. They generate by [F2], giving . The dual reflection formula gives ; hence every representative of fixes by conjugation and lies in its centralizer, proving(d). The simple root itself pairs positively, and its negative root group is excluded; no representative of is claimed to lie in this parabolic. Central changes of a rational dual vector pair trivially with every root and do not affect these limit subgroups.
Depends on
- Borel subgroups and the opposition of root groups
- The root datum of a split reductive group
- Root subgroups of a split reductive group
- The Weyl group, Borel subgroups and chambers
- Chevalley's centralizer theorem and reductive centralizers
- Cocharacter limit subgroups
- Combinatorics of a reduced root datum
- The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Groups (corrected 2022 printing, Cambridge University Press) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Brian Conrad, Reductive Group Schemes (SGA 3 summer school, Luminy; Panoramas et Syntheses) (standard reference, not scraped)