Connected affine groups with zero tangent space #
Let H be the coordinate Hopf algebra of an affine group over a field. If its tangent Lie
algebra at the identity is zero, then the augmentation ideal m satisfies m / m ^ 2 = 0.
When m is finitely generated, this equality upgrades to m ^ 2 = m, so m is generated by
an idempotent. Connectedness of Spec H forces that idempotent to be zero or one. It cannot be
one because the counit has nonzero codomain, and hence m = 0.
Thus a connected affine group of finite type with zero Lie algebra is trivial: its counit is
an equivalence by HopfIdeal.counitBialgEquivOfAugmentationEqBot. The result is formulated first
with the exact connectedness and finite-generation assumptions used in the proof, then
specialized to geometrically connected finite-type commutative Hopf algebras.
This is the zero-dimensional quotient input for the equal-dimension containment argument in Layer 5, "The unipotent radical", of the ReductiveGroups roadmap.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.HopfIdeal.augmentation_eq_bot_iff_finrank_lie_eq_zero: for a connected coordinate Hopf algebra with finitely generated augmentation ideal, that ideal vanishes exactly when its Lie algebra has dimension zero.TauCeti.geometricallyConnectedCommHopfAlgProperty.augmentation_eq_bot_of_finrank_lie_eq_zero: the finite-type geometrically connected specialization.TauCeti.geometricallyConnectedCommHopfAlgProperty.counitBialgEquivOfFinrankLieEqZero: the resulting equivalence with the base field via the counit.
References #
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Groups (2017), §§2.15--2.17 and Appendix A.51, for the zero-tangent/triviality result.
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Groups (2017), Proposition 6.42 and §§6.45--6.46, and A. Borel, Linear Algebraic Groups, §11.21, for the downstream maximality application.
A connected affine group with finitely generated augmentation ideal has zero augmentation ideal exactly when its tangent Lie algebra has dimension zero.
A geometrically connected affine group of finite type whose tangent Lie algebra has dimension zero has zero augmentation ideal, and is therefore trivial via the counit.
This is the coordinate-ring form of the fact that a connected zero-dimensional algebraic group is trivial.
A geometrically connected affine group of finite type with zero-dimensional tangent Lie algebra is bialgebra-equivalent to the base field via the counit.
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The zero-tangent equivalence from the coordinate algebra to the base field is the counit.
The inverse zero-tangent equivalence from the base field is the structure map.