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TauCeti.Algebra.AlgebraicGroup.GroupAlgebra.Galois.Torus

Galois descent produces a torus #

Let L / k be a finite Galois extension and let M be a lattice, that is, a torsion-free finitely generated abelian group, carrying an integral representation of Gal(L/k). The invariants of the simultaneous semilinear action on L[M] form a finite-type commutative Hopf algebra over k whose scalar extension to L is L[M] again. This file bundles the resulting affine group as an object of the finite-type coordinate category and proves that it is a torus, split by L.

This is the existence half of the Galois-descent classification of tori: every integral representation of a finite Galois group on a lattice is realised by a torus over the base field, split by the extension the representation is taken over. Identifying the geometric character lattice of that torus with the given Galois module is a separate step. Nothing here restricts the characteristic, and the action of Gal(L/k) on the lattice is arbitrary; a split torus is the case of the trivial action.

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The exponent group of the split group algebra, written multiplicatively and bundled as a finitely generated commutative group.

This is the exponent group used to present the split base change; finite generation supplies the bundling.

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    The underlying commutative group of the exponent group is M written multiplicatively.

    The exponent group of a torsion-free lattice is torsion-free.

    The affine group descended from the diagonalizable group D(M) along a finite Galois extension, as an object of the category of finite-type commutative Hopf algebras.

    Its coordinate algebra is the invariant subalgebra (L[M])^{Gal(L/k)} for the action twisting both the coefficients and the exponents.

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      The underlying Hopf algebra of the descended coordinate ring is the invariant group algebra.

      The descended group becomes the diagonalizable group D(M) over L.

      This is groupAlgebraInvariantsBaseChangeBialgEquiv bundled as an isomorphism of finite-type coordinate Hopf algebras over the splitting field.

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        The forward descended splitting is the group-algebra base-change equivalence.

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        The inverse descended splitting is the inverse group-algebra base-change equivalence.

        The affine group descended from a Galois lattice is a torus.

        Torsion freeness of the lattice is what rules out the finite groups of multiplicative type such as μ_n; no hypothesis is placed on the characteristic of k or on the action of Gal(L/k) on the lattice.

        The descended torus is split by the Galois extension it was descended along.