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TauCeti.Algebra.AlgebraicGroup.Center.Quotient

The fppf quotient by the center #

Let H be the coordinate Hopf algebra of an affine group over a field. The center is a normal closed subgroup, so the general fppf quotient construction gives the center quotient G / Z(G) as a group object in fppf sheaves. This file names that quotient and its canonical projection.

The projection is an epimorphism and is locally surjective for the fppf topology. Its kernel-pair square is the torsor square for the action of the center on G. The sheaf quotient is the correct first construction of G / Z(G): no representability claim is made here. For a reductive group, representability and the proof that the represented quotient is the adjoint form remain separate.

Before sheafification, the construction is the ordinary quotient G(A) / Z(G)(A) on every commutative value algebra A. Its projection has kernel exactly the universally central points.

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The defining Hopf ideal of the center is normal.

Locally expose normality of the represented center on points.

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The pointwise center quotient G(A) / Z(G)(A).

The fppf center quotient is obtained by assembling these groups into a presheaf and sheafifying.

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    Locally expose the group structure carried by the bundled pointwise center quotient.

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      The pointwise center-quotient projection sends a point to its ordinary quotient class.

      The kernel of G(A) ⟶ G(A) / Z(G)(A) is exactly the A-points of the represented center.

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      A point maps to the identity in G(A) / Z(G)(A) exactly when it is universally central.

      The projection from points to their center quotient is surjective.

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      The fppf sheaf quotient G / Z(G) of an affine group by its center.

      This is the sheafification of the pointwise quotient presheaf. It does not assert that the quotient is represented by a scheme.

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        Maps from the center quotient to an fppf sheaf group are equivalent to maps from the pointwise center quotient into its underlying presheaf.

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          A map from the pointwise center quotient into the underlying presheaf of an fppf sheaf group extends uniquely to the fppf center quotient.

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            The universal-property equivalence sends the center-quotient lift back to the supplied map.

            A morphism from the center quotient is determined by its image under the universal-property equivalence.

            The projection to the fppf center quotient is an epimorphism.

            Every section of the fppf center quotient lifts to an ambient-group section after an fppf cover.

            The kernel pair of G ⟶ G / Z(G) is G × Z(G) via (g, z) ↦ (g, gz). Together with local surjectivity, this exhibits the projection as an fppf torsor under the center.