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TauCeti.Algebra.AlgebraicGroup.MultiplicativeType.Basic

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.

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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.

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    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.

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