Groups of multiplicative type #
A finite-type affine group over a field is of multiplicative type when it becomes diagonalizable
after extending scalars to an algebraic closure. On coordinate Hopf algebras, diagonalizability is
the intrinsic condition that the group-like elements span the algebra. Thus a finite-type
commutative Hopf algebra H over k is of multiplicative type exactly when the group-like
elements span AlgebraicClosure k ⊗[k] H.
The essential-image characterization of diagonalizable coordinate rings identifies this intrinsic
definition with the usual one: after base change, the Hopf algebra is isomorphic to k̄[M] for a
finitely generated commutative group M. In particular, every coordinate ring arising from
FGCommGrpCat is of multiplicative type.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.multiplicativeTypeCommHopfAlgProperty: the multiplicative-type object property on finite-type commutative Hopf algebras over a field.TauCeti.multiplicativeTypeCommHopfAlgProperty_iff_exists_iso_coordinateRing: the characterization by becoming a diagonalizable coordinate ring over an algebraic closure.TauCeti.DiagonalizableGroup.multiplicativeType_coordinateRing: every finite-type diagonalizable coordinate Hopf algebra is of multiplicative type.TauCeti.MultiplicativeTypeCommHopfAlgCat: the full subcategory of coordinate Hopf algebras of multiplicative-type groups.
References #
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Groups (2017), Definition 12.14.
- W. C. Waterhouse, Introduction to Affine Group Schemes, Chapter 2.
This is the coordinate-algebra foundation for Layer 4, "Diagonalizable groups and groups of multiplicative type", of the ReductiveGroups roadmap. Non-split tori will add smoothness and geometric connectedness to this property and equip the resulting character lattice with its Galois action.
The object property selecting finite-type commutative Hopf algebras that become diagonalizable after base change to an algebraic closure.
Diagonalizability is expressed intrinsically by the group-like elements spanning the base-changed coordinate algebra.
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Membership in the multiplicative-type property means that the base-changed Hopf algebra is spanned by its group-like elements.
Being of multiplicative type is invariant under isomorphisms of finite-type commutative Hopf algebras.
A finite-type commutative Hopf algebra is of multiplicative type exactly when its base change to an algebraic closure is the coordinate Hopf algebra of a diagonalizable group.
Every finite-type diagonalizable coordinate Hopf algebra is of multiplicative type.
The category of finite-type commutative Hopf algebras of multiplicative type over a field.
Objects are not required to be split over the base field; they become diagonalizable after base change to an algebraic closure.