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.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.CommHopfAlgCat.centerQuotientFppfSheaf: the fppf sheaf quotientG / Z(G).TauCeti.CommHopfAlgCat.centerQuotientFppfProjection: the canonical projection to the center quotient.TauCeti.CommHopfAlgCat.centerPointwiseQuotientMk_ker: the pointwise projection has kernelZ(G)(A).TauCeti.CommHopfAlgCat.centerQuotientFppfHomEquiv: the universal property inherited from fppf sheafification.TauCeti.CommHopfAlgCat.isLocallySurjective_centerQuotientFppfProjection: local surjectivity of the projection.TauCeti.CommHopfAlgCat.isPullback_centerQuotientFppfTorsor: the center-torsor kernel-pair square.
References #
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Groups (2017), §§5 and 19.
- W. C. Waterhouse, Introduction to Affine Group Schemes, Chapter 14.
The defining Hopf ideal of the center is normal.
Locally expose normality of the represented center on points.
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 quotient homomorphism from G(A) to G(A) / Z(G)(A).
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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.
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.
Extension of scalars sends a center-quotient class to the class of the extended point.
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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The canonical morphism from an affine group's fppf sheaf of points to its center quotient.
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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 right action of the center on the ambient fppf sheaf of points.
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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.