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TauCeti.Algebra.AlgebraicGroup.Tangent.Zero

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.

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References #

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.

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    The inverse zero-tangent equivalence from the base field is the structure map.