The graph-twisted Frobenius of the full-weight type-A carrier #
TauCeti.SlStd.groupScheme r is the explicit full-weight Chevalley carrier of type A_r, and its
point group over a commutative ring A of exponential characteristic p carries two pinned
endomorphisms: the p ^ k-power Frobenius TauCeti.SlStd.frobenius, which raises every matrix
entry to its p ^ k-th power, and the graph automorphism
TauCeti.SlStd.graphAutomorphismPoints, which is signed reverse inverse transpose. This file
composes them into
twistedFrobenius = γ ∘ Frob_q, q = p ^ k,
and proves the three relations that make the composite behave like the Frobenius it twists: the two
factors commute, γ is an involution, and consequently
twistedFrobenius ∘ twistedFrobenius = Frob_(q ^ 2).
The commutation is not a computation about the carrier: signed reverse inverse transpose is defined
by matrices with entries 0 and ±1, so it is natural in the coefficient ring, and the Frobenius
is the entrywise action of a ring endomorphism of that same coefficient ring.
The square relation has an arithmetic reading. Every point fixed by the twisted map is fixed by
Frob_(q ^ 2), so its matrix entries lie in the subring of A fixed by the q ^ 2-power
Frobenius. That subring is a field of q ^ 2 elements only under hypotheses none of the statements
below assume: p prime, 0 < k, and A an algebraic closure of ZMod p. Under those hypotheses,
and for 2 ≤ r, it is the usual statement that the twisted family of type A at parameter q has
a matrix realization over 𝔽_{q ^ 2} while its Frobenius parameter is q. At the other permitted
parameters the reading fails; at k = 0 the exponent q ^ 2 is 1 and the fixed subring is all
of A. Only the containment is proved; no reverse containment is claimed, and nothing here
asserts that either fixed group is finite, is perfect, or is simple.
The value ring is taken in Type, matching TauCeti.SlStd.graphAutomorphismPoints. That is
inherited rather than chosen here: the coordinate automorphism the graph automorphism descends from
is recovered through the full faithfulness of the points functor on CommAlgCat.{0} ℤ, so
TauCeti.GeneralLinear.pointsMulEquiv_comp_typeAGraphCoordinateIso and every point-level
consequence of it are stated at universe 0. TauCeti.SlStd.frobenius, which is
universe-polymorphic, is specialized to that universe here.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.SlStd.twistedFrobenius: the compositeγ ∘ Frob_qon the type-A_rpoint group.
Main results #
TauCeti.SlStd.graphAutomorphismPoints_frobeniusandTauCeti.SlStd.graphAutomorphismPoints_comp_frobenius: the graph automorphism commutes with Frobenius.TauCeti.SlStd.twistedFrobenius_rootSubgroupPointsandTauCeti.SlStd.twistedFrobenius_weightTorusPoints: the equations on the pinned generating root subgroups and split torus, which reverse the Bourbaki numbering and raise the parameter to itsp ^ k-th power.TauCeti.SlStd.twistedFrobenius_twistedFrobeniusandTauCeti.SlStd.twistedFrobenius_comp_self: the square of the twisted map is thep ^ (2 * k)-power Frobenius, pointwise and as an identity of endomorphisms.TauCeti.SlStd.fixedSubgroup_twistedFrobenius_le_fixedSubgroup_frobeniusandTauCeti.SlStd.map_subtype_fixedSubgroup_twistedFrobenius_le: its fixed points lie among the points over thep ^ (2 * k)-power Frobenius-fixed subring.
References #
- R. W. Carter, Finite Groups of Lie Type: Conjugacy Classes and Complex Characters, §§1.15 and 1.17.
- R. Steinberg, Lectures on Chevalley Groups, §11.
- D. Gorenstein, R. Lyons and R. Solomon, The Classification of the Finite Simple Groups, for the
small-field convention that indexes the twisted type-
Afamily byqrather than byq ^ 2.
This advances the "Pinnings" and "points over an algebraically closed field" targets in Layer 9 of
TauCetiRoadmap/ReductiveGroups/README.md. Its consumer is milestone L1 of
TauCetiRoadmap/CFSGStatement/README.md, which sets the ²A Steinberg map to γ₂ ∘ Frob_q and
requires exactly γ₂ ^ 2 = 1 together with the commutation of γ₂ with Frob_q.
The graph automorphism commutes with Frobenius #
The pinned type-A_r graph automorphism commutes with the Frobenius endomorphism of the
carrier points. Both act on matrices: the former by conjugated inverse transpose over the signed
reversal matrix, the latter entrywise through a ring endomorphism of the coefficients.
The graph automorphism commutes with Frobenius, as an identity of endomorphisms.
The twisted Frobenius #
The graph-twisted p ^ k-power Frobenius of the full-weight type-A_r carrier, the
composite γ ∘ Frob_q of the pinned graph automorphism with the Frobenius endomorphism.
For 2 ≤ r, p prime, 0 < k, and A an algebraic closure of ZMod p, this is the Steinberg
map intended for a future construction of the twisted family ²A_r(p ^ k); at r ≤ 1 the type-A
diagram has no nontrivial symmetry and there is no such family. None of those hypotheses are
assumed here, and nothing here asserts that the fixed group is finite or simple.
Equations
- TauCeti.SlStd.twistedFrobenius r p k A = (TauCeti.SlStd.graphAutomorphismPoints r A).toMonoidHom.comp (TauCeti.SlStd.frobenius r p k A)
Instances For
On matrices, the twisted Frobenius is signed reverse inverse transpose applied to the entrywise
p ^ k-power Frobenius.
The pinned equations #
The twisted Frobenius reverses the Bourbaki numbering of a numbered root subgroup and raises
its parameter to the p ^ k-th power. This is the pinned equation
γ ∘ Frob_q (x_α(t)) = x_{γ α}(t ^ q) on the simple root subgroups.
The twisted Frobenius reverses the coordinates of the pinned split torus and raises each of
them to the p ^ k-th power.
The square relation #
Applying the twisted Frobenius twice raises every matrix entry to its p ^ (2 * k)-th
power. This is the relation a Steinberg map of the twisted family is required to satisfy, that a
power of it is a Frobenius; no such structure is asserted here.
The square of the twisted Frobenius is the p ^ (2 * k)-power Frobenius, as an identity of
endomorphisms.
A point fixed by the twisted Frobenius is fixed by the p ^ (2 * k)-power Frobenius. No
reverse containment is claimed.
Every matrix entry of a point fixed by the twisted Frobenius lies in the subring fixed by the
p ^ (2 * k)-power Frobenius. For p prime, 0 < k, and A an algebraic closure of ZMod p
that subring is the field of p ^ (2 * k) elements; if moreover 2 ≤ r, so that the type-A
diagram has a nontrivial symmetry and a twisted family exists, this is the statement that the
twisted family at Frobenius parameter q = p ^ k is realized by matrices over 𝔽_{q ^ 2}. Without
those hypotheses the subring need not be a finite field; at k = 0 it is all of A.
The points fixed by the twisted Frobenius lie among the points of the same carrier over the
p ^ (2 * k)-power Frobenius-fixed subring. The corresponding statement for the Frobenius itself,
TauCeti.SlStd.map_subtype_fixedSubgroup_frobenius_eq, is an equality; here only the containment
holds.