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Every complex affine algebraic action has a finite-dimensional equivariant closed embedding
Statement
Assume AC through the published affine Nullstellensatz and morphism dictionary. Let be a complex affine algebraic group and any affine algebraic set with an algebraic -action. There is a finite-dimensional rational -module generating as an algebra, such that evaluation is an equivariant isomorphism onto a closed invariant algebraic subset. The target has the dual action . Neither connectedness, irreducibility, nor reductivity is required; this is an embedding of the action, not merely a faithful representation of .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: and the algebraic action, and AC (The Axiom of Choice).
Coordinates finitely generate (The coordinate ring of a classical affine algebraic set).
A finite set of functions lies in a finite-dimensional rational stable subspace (The coordinate ring of an affine algebraic action is a locally finite rational module).
Affine algebra maps reconstruct morphisms (Classical affine morphisms are contravariantly equivalent to coordinate-ring homomorphisms).
A radical ideal is exactly (Classical affine algebraic sets correspond to radical ideals, and irreducible sets to prime ideals).
Proof
Choose finitely many algebra generators of by F1 and put them in a finite-dimensional rational submodule by F2. Then generates . Choose a finite basis of . Its action has regular matrix entries; the dual action has transpose-inverse matrix, whose entries are regular because inversion is a morphism. Thus is a finite-dimensional rational module.
The coordinate map , , is surjective. Its kernel is radical since is reduced. F4 identifies with , and identifies that quotient with . F3 gives mutually inverse morphisms from this algebra isomorphism. The morphism to is precisely evaluation because its coordinates are ; hence evaluation is an isomorphism onto the closed set . If is empty, , and is the unit ideal so the conclusion still holds.
For , and , by the inverse-pullback action on functions. This proves equivariance and invariance of the image. The only choice beyond finite-dimensional selection is the AC inherited by F3 and F4 in step 2.1; local finiteness itself needs no infinite basis.
Depends on
Classical complex affine algebraic actions and rational modules
The coordinate ring of an affine algebraic action is a locally finite rational module
The coordinate ring of a classical affine algebraic set
Classical affine algebraic sets correspond to radical ideals, and irreducible sets to prime ideals
Classical affine morphisms are contravariantly equivalent to coordinate-ring homomorphisms
The Axiom of Choice