The kernel pair of an affine group homomorphism in coordinates #
For a coordinate morphism f : H ⟶ K, the kernel pair of Spec K → Spec H is
isomorphic to Spec K × ker f. On points the isomorphism sends (g, n) to (g, g n);
its inverse sends (g, h) to (g, g⁻¹ h). This file constructs the corresponding
K-algebra equivalence K ⊗[H] K ≃ₐ[K] K ⊗[R] (K ⧸ kernelHopfIdeal f).
No flatness or surjectivity hypothesis is needed. The isomorphism supplies the kernel-pair
calculation used to descend properties of affine-group morphisms from their kernels.
The construction uses kernelHopfIdeal_toIdeal_le_ker_iff and the convolution functoriality
of TauCeti.AlgHom.mapDomain and TauCeti.AlgHom.mapValue.
References #
- W. C. Waterhouse, Introduction to Affine Group Schemes, §14.
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Groups (2017), §5.
The coordinate algebra of the kernel pair of an affine group homomorphism is the tensor
product of the source coordinate algebra with that of its scheme-theoretic kernel.
The map on points is (g,n) ↦ (g,gn).
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On pure tensors, the kernel-pair equivalence multiplies the first factor by the comultiplication of the second, followed by projection onto the kernel coordinates.
On a quotient representative, the inverse kernel-pair equivalence uses the antipode
in the first leg of comultiplication and then balances the tensor product over H.