Root-action columns on the modular F4 quotient #
This file records structural first- and second-divided-power columns after quotienting the modular Chevalley lattice by its short-root ideal. These formulas are stated on concrete lifts; they do not package quotient endomorphisms or exponentials.
References #
- R. Steinberg, Endomorphisms of linear algebraic groups, Memoirs AMS 80 (1968), §11.
- R. W. Carter, Simple Groups of Lie Type, §12.3.
The first adjoint action of a short root vanishes after quotienting by the short-root ideal.
Transport a target root edge to a long-source first-order quotient column.
The opposite-root first-order quotient column is the corresponding coroot lift.
The simple-coroot first-order column has the signed reduced Cartan coefficient.
A non-opposite long-root column vanishes when its transported target edge is absent.
A long-source divided-square column on a non-opposite long-root lift vanishes.
The exceptional divided-square quotient column is the source root-vector lift.
A short-source divided-square column vanishes without a transported target edge.
Transport a target root edge to a short-source divided-square quotient column.