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TauCeti.Algebra.AlgebraicGroup.SpecialLinear.Borel.Geometry

Geometry of the standard Borel subgroup of SL₂ #

The upper-triangular determinant-one subgroup of SL₂ is smooth, geometrically connected, and geometrically solvable. Its coordinate algebra has the explicit presentation

R[T, T⁻¹][X],

where T is the upper-left diagonal entry and X is the upper-right entry. This presentation also makes geometric connectedness transparent: after extending a field, the coordinate ring remains a polynomial ring over a Laurent polynomial domain.

Smoothness is the rank-two case of smoothness of the upper-triangular subgroup of SLₙ, which follows from the infinitesimal lifting property for upper-triangular determinant-one matrices across nilpotent quotients.

The subgroup here is the rank-two upper-triangular subgroup of SLₙ (TauCeti.SpecialLinear.Borel.definingHopfIdeal_eq_upperTriangular_definingHopfIdeal). That it is a Borel subgroup, and that the Borel subgroups are its conjugates, is proved in every rank in TauCeti.Algebra.AlgebraicGroup.SpecialLinear.UpperTriangular.Borel.

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Polynomial-Laurent presentation #

The upper-left diagonal coordinate of the standard SL₂ Borel, bundled as a unit.

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    Polynomial-Laurent coordinates on the standard SL₂ Borel. Its coordinate algebra is R[T, T⁻¹][X]: T records the upper-left diagonal unit and X records the free upper-right entry.

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      The coordinate equivalence sends the diagonal unit to the Laurent generator.

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      The coordinate equivalence sends the upper-right coordinate to the polynomial generator.

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      The inverse coordinate equivalence sends the Laurent generator to the diagonal unit.

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      The inverse coordinate equivalence sends the polynomial generator to the upper-right coordinate.

      Base change #

      Base change of the standard SL₂ Borel coordinate Hopf algebra is canonically the same coordinate Hopf algebra constructed over the new base.

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        The standard SL₂ Borel coordinate Hopf algebra is geometrically connected. After every field extension its coordinate ring is a polynomial ring over a Laurent polynomial domain.

        The coordinate algebra of the upper-triangular determinant-one subgroup of SL₂ is smooth over every commutative base ring, as the rank-two case of the upper-triangular subgroup of SLₙ.

        The standard Borel coordinate algebra is smooth over a field.

        Every algebra-valued point group of the standard SL₂ Borel is solvable.