Semisimple unipotent affine groups are trivial #
Over a perfect field, a point that is both semisimple and unipotent is the identity. This file
turns that pointwise fact into a scheme-theoretic rigidity statement: if a reduced finite-type
commutative Hopf algebra has only semisimple and unipotent geometric points, then its counit is an
isomorphism with the base field. Reducedness is essential because geometric points do not detect
infinitesimal group schemes such as μₚ and αₚ in characteristic p.
The main application is to diagonalizable groups. Every point of a diagonalizable group is semisimple, and semisimplicity is reflected by a closed immersion. It follows that every reduced finite-type closed subgroup of a diagonalizable group whose geometric points are unipotent is the trivial group. This is the rigidity input for the reductive-groups roadmap: once the unipotent radical is constructed, it proves that the unipotent radical of a torus is trivial.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.FiniteTypeCommHopfAlgCat.counitBialgEquivOfGeometricallySemisimpleUnipotent: the counit equivalence for a reduced group with semisimple and unipotent geometric points.TauCeti.DiagonalizableGroup.quotientCounitBialgEquivOfGeometricallyUnipotent: a reduced unipotent closed subgroup of a finite-type diagonalizable group is trivial.TauCeti.DiagonalizableGroup.eq_augmentation_of_geometricallyUnipotent: its defining Hopf ideal is the augmentation ideal.
References #
- J. S. Milne, Algebraic Groups (2017), Proposition 12.40.
- T. A. Springer, Linear Algebraic Groups, §2.4.
This advances Layer 6, "Reductive and semisimple groups", of the ReductiveGroups roadmap. It supplies the trivial-unipotent-subgroup argument needed to prove that tori are reductive, using the geometric unipotence and diagonalizable-group semisimplicity developed in Layers 4 and 5.
A point that is both semisimple and unipotent is the identity.
The counit of a reduced finite-type commutative Hopf algebra is bijective when every geometric point is both semisimple and unipotent.
A reduced finite-type affine group whose geometric points are all semisimple and unipotent is the trivial group: its counit is a bialgebra equivalence with the base field.
Equations
- H.counitBialgEquivOfGeometricallySemisimpleUnipotent hsemisimple hunipotent = BialgEquiv.ofBijective (Bialgebra.counitBialgHom k ↑H.obj) ⋯
Instances For
The equivalence from a geometrically semisimple and unipotent affine group to the base field is its counit.
The inverse counit equivalence is the structure map from the base field.
A Hopf ideal is the augmentation ideal when its quotient is reduced, finite type, and has only semisimple and unipotent geometric points. Equivalently, the closed subgroup cut out by the ideal is trivial.
A reduced finite-type closed subgroup of a diagonalizable group is trivial when all of its geometric points are unipotent.
The closed subgroup is represented by the quotient of k[G] by I. No normality or connectedness
hypothesis is needed: every quotient point embeds into the diagonalizable ambient group, hence is
semisimple, and a semisimple unipotent point is the identity.
Equations
- One or more equations did not get rendered due to their size.
Instances For
The equivalence for a geometrically unipotent closed subgroup is its counit.
The inverse equivalence for a geometrically unipotent closed subgroup is the structure map.
The defining Hopf ideal of a reduced finite-type unipotent closed subgroup of a diagonalizable group is the augmentation ideal. Thus the closed subgroup is the identity subgroup, not merely abstractly isomorphic to it.