The Frobenius endomorphism of the additive group #
Over a base commutative semiring R of exponential characteristic p, the additive group
𝔾ₐ = Spec R[x] (here x = ι R R 1 in SymmetricAlgebra R R) carries the Frobenius
endomorphism F : 𝔾ₐ → 𝔾ₐ, which on every commutative R-algebra A raises a point to its
p-th power,
a ↦ aᵖ. This is a homomorphism of additive-monoid-valued functors precisely because of the
freshman's dream:
raising to the p-th power is additive in exponential characteristic p. Contravariantly it is
induced by the bialgebra endomorphism of the coordinate bialgebra R[x] sending the primitive
generator x to xᵖ (again primitive, Δ(xᵖ) = xᵖ ⊗ 1 + 1 ⊗ xᵖ).
The exponential-characteristic hypothesis [ExpChar R p] covers both the interesting case of
prime characteristic p (where F is the genuine Frobenius) and the degenerate case p = 1
(characteristic zero, where F is the identity), so the API applies verbatim to the Frobenius
kernel group scheme αₚ of TauCeti.Algebra.AlgebraicGroup.AdditiveFrobeniusKernel.Basic,
where R has prime characteristic p.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.AdditiveGroup.comul_ι_pow: in exponential characteristicpthe Frobenius powerxᵖis primitive,Δ(xᵖ) = xᵖ ⊗ 1 + 1 ⊗ xᵖ.TauCeti.AdditiveGroup.frobeniusBialgHom: the Frobenius bialgebra endomorphismx ↦ xᵖof the coordinate bialgebraR[x]of𝔾ₐ.TauCeti.AdditiveGroup.frobeniusEnd: the Frobenius endomorphism of𝔾ₐon the functor of points, the contravariant image offrobeniusBialgHom.TauCeti.AdditiveGroup.toAdd_gaPointsMulEquiv_frobeniusEnd: the Frobenius endomorphism acts asa ↦ aᵖon points.TauCeti.AdditiveGroup.mapValue_frobeniusEnd: the Frobenius endomorphism is natural in the value algebra.
References #
The additive-group points dictionary TauCeti.AdditiveGroup.gaPointsMulEquiv and the
coordinate-bialgebra functoriality TauCeti.AlgHom.mapDomain are Tau Ceti's. The freshman's
dream add_pow_expChar, the symmetric-algebra bialgebra structure, and the bialgebra-hom
constructor BialgHom.ofAlgHom are Mathlib's.
The Frobenius power xᵖ is primitive. In exponential characteristic p the
comultiplication of xᵖ is xᵖ ⊗ 1 + 1 ⊗ xᵖ, by the freshman's dream applied to the primitive
generator x.
The Frobenius bialgebra endomorphism x ↦ xᵖ of the coordinate bialgebra of 𝔾ₐ. In
exponential characteristic p the generator x is primitive, hence so is xᵖ
(Δ(xᵖ) = xᵖ ⊗ 1 + 1 ⊗ xᵖ by the freshman's dream), and the counit still vanishes on xᵖ, so
the algebra endomorphism x ↦ xᵖ is a bialgebra endomorphism. It induces the Frobenius
endomorphism of 𝔾ₐ on the functor of points.
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The Frobenius endomorphism of 𝔾ₐ, on the functor of points. For every commutative
R-algebra A it is the homomorphism of the convolution monoid of points induced
(contravariantly) by the Frobenius bialgebra endomorphism x ↦ xᵖ; on points it raises a point to
its p-th power, a ↦ aᵖ.
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The Frobenius endomorphism acts as a ↦ aᵖ on points. Reading a 𝔾ₐ-point off on the
generator x = ι 1, the Frobenius endomorphism raises the resulting element of A to its p-th
power.
This is not a simp lemma: the @[simp] lemma toAdd_gaPointsMulEquiv already rewrites the
left-hand side Multiplicative.toAdd (gaPointsMulEquiv ..), so the statement is not in
simp-normal form.
Naturality in the value algebra. The Frobenius endomorphism of 𝔾ₐ commutes with the
value-algebra functoriality AlgHom.mapValue.