The root subgroups of the general linear group #
For a pair of distinct indices i ≠ j, the elementary matrices xᵢⱼ(c) = 1 + c Eᵢⱼ form a
one-parameter subgroup of GLₙ. This file promotes that family to a homomorphism of affine group
schemes
xᵢⱼ : 𝔾ₐ → GLₙ
over an arbitrary commutative base ring R. On the
A-points of 𝔾ₐ, which are the additive group of A, it is the map c ↦ xᵢⱼ(c) into the
A-points of GLₙ, which are GL n A. The natural family of point maps determines a
coordinate Hopf-algebra morphism by full faithfulness of the functor of points, and relative
spectrum gives TauCeti.GeneralLinear.rootSubgroup as a morphism of affine group schemes.
Reading the index pair (i, j) as the root εᵢ - εⱼ of the diagonal torus of GLₙ, this is the
root subgroup of that root. The relations it satisfies — additivity in the parameter, the
Chevalley commutator relations, and the rescaling of the parameter under conjugation by the torus
— all hold at the level of the matrices, and are proved in
TauCeti/LinearAlgebra/Matrix/GeneralLinearGroup/Transvection.lean; the points equivalences
TauCeti.GeneralLinear.pointsMulEquiv and TauCeti.AdditiveGroup.gaPointsMulEquiv transport them
to any of the three views of the group. Nothing here needs R to be a field, and nothing needs the
base to be reduced or the rank to be positive: the construction is the one over ℤ that a
Chevalley–Demazure group of type A base changes from.
Formal references #
- The integral coordinate-surjectivity argument for the type-A full-weight carrier.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.GeneralLinear.rootSubgroupPoints: the homomorphism onA-points, from the additive group ofAtoGL n A, read through the two points equivalences.TauCeti.GeneralLinear.rootSubgroupCoordinateMap: the corresponding coordinate Hopf-algebra morphismO(GLₙ) → O(𝔾ₐ).TauCeti.GeneralLinear.rootSubgroup: the resulting affine group-scheme morphism𝔾ₐ → GLₙ.
Main results #
TauCeti.GeneralLinear.pointsMulEquiv_rootSubgroupPoints: the homomorphism on points is the elementary matrix of the parameter.TauCeti.GeneralLinear.rootSubgroupPoints_injective: the homomorphism on points is injective.TauCeti.GeneralLinear.mapValue_rootSubgroupPoints: it is natural in the value algebra.TauCeti.GeneralLinear.schemePointsMulEquiv_rootSubgroup: on scheme-valued points, composing with the group-scheme morphism is again the elementary matrix of the parameter.
References #
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Groups (2017), §21, where the root subgroups of a split reductive group are characterised by exactly these equations.
- R. W. Carter, Simple Groups of Lie Type (1972), §11.3.
The root subgroup homomorphism on A-points: it sends the A-point c of 𝔾ₐ to the
elementary matrix xᵢⱼ(c), an A-point of GLₙ.
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- One or more equations did not get rendered due to their size.
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On points, the root subgroup homomorphism is the elementary matrix of the parameter. This is
not a simp lemma, since TauCeti.GeneralLinear.pointsMulEquiv_apply rewrites its left-hand
side.
The root subgroup homomorphism is natural in the value algebra: the elementary matrix of the image parameter is the image of the elementary matrix.
The natural transformation of group-valued functors whose component at an A-point sends
c to the elementary matrix xᵢⱼ(c).
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- TauCeti.GeneralLinear.rootSubgroupPointsMap hij = { app := fun (A : CommAlgCat R) => GrpCat.ofHom (TauCeti.GeneralLinear.rootSubgroupPoints hij), naturality := ⋯ }
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The component of the natural points map at a value algebra is the root subgroup homomorphism on points.
The coordinate morphism of the root subgroup, recovered from its natural action on points.
Its direction is O(GLₙ) → O(𝔾ₐ), opposite to the represented group-scheme morphism.
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On every same-universe value algebra, the map induced by the root-subgroup coordinate morphism is the elementary root subgroup homomorphism already constructed on points.
The root-subgroup coordinate map sends a generic matrix entry to the corresponding entry
of 1 + X Eᵢⱼ.
The root subgroup of GLₙ attached to the root εᵢ - εⱼ: the affine
group-scheme morphism 𝔾ₐ → GLₙ whose value on points is c ↦ xᵢⱼ(c).
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- One or more equations did not get rendered due to their size.
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The root subgroup on scheme-valued points: composing an A-point of 𝔾ₐ with the root
subgroup morphism gives the elementary matrix xᵢⱼ(c) of its parameter c, as an A-point of
GLₙ.