The group structure on connected components of an affine group #
Let H be the coordinate Hopf algebra of a finite-type affine group over an algebraically closed
field. Every connected component of Spec H contains a rational point, and two rational points
lie in the same component exactly when they differ by a point of the identity component. Thus the
canonical equivalence
H(k) / H⁰(k) ≃ ConnectedComponents (Spec H)
transports the quotient-group structure to the connected components. This file records that
structure and its characteristic API: the component of a product is the product of the
components, and the component map from rational points is a surjective group homomorphism whose
kernel is exactly H⁰(k).
This is the group-theoretic input for representing π₀(H) by the finite constant group scheme
on the connected components. The coordinate-algebra comparison additionally needs the orthogonal
component-idempotent decomposition.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.FiniteTypeCommHopfAlgCat.instGroupConnectedComponents: the component-group structure onConnectedComponents (PrimeSpectrum H).TauCeti.FiniteTypeCommHopfAlgCat.componentGroupPointsMulEquivConnectedComponents: the multiplicative equivalence from the rational pointwise quotient to connected components.TauCeti.FiniteTypeCommHopfAlgCat.rationalComponentMap: the surjective homomorphism sending a rational point to its connected component.TauCeti.FiniteTypeCommHopfAlgCat.rationalComponentMap_ker: its kernel is the rational points of the identity component.
References #
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Groups (2017), Proposition 2.37 and Section 5.
- W. C. Waterhouse, Introduction to Affine Group Schemes, Sections 6.7 and 14.
This advances Layer 3, "Identity component G° and component group π₀(G)", of the
ReductiveGroups roadmap.
The group structure on the connected components of the spectrum of a finite-type affine
group. It is characterized by the requirement that the canonical bijection from
H(k) / H⁰(k) be multiplicative.
The canonical equivalence from the rational pointwise component group to the connected components of the spectrum, as a multiplicative equivalence.
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The multiplicative component-group equivalence is the canonical component map on elements.
The canonical bijection from the rational pointwise quotient to connected components sends the identity to the identity component.
The canonical bijection from the rational pointwise quotient to connected components preserves multiplication.
The canonical bijection from the rational pointwise quotient to connected components preserves inverses.
Send a rational point of a finite-type affine group to the connected component containing its kernel point.
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The rational component map sends a point to the component containing its kernel point.
The component containing the identity rational point is the identity of the component group.
The component of a product of rational points is the product of their components.
The component of the inverse of a rational point is the inverse component.
Every connected component of the spectrum contains the kernel point of a rational point.
A rational point maps to the identity component exactly when it belongs to the rational
points of H⁰.
The kernel of the rational component map is the rational-point subgroup of the identity component.