The closed-subgroup criterion #
A closed subscheme of a group scheme is a subgroup scheme exactly when the identity, multiplication of its two copies, and inversion factor through it. Scheme-theoretic factorization is expressed by inclusion of ideal sheaves in the kernels of these maps. Thus the criterion detects the equations on nonreduced bases, not merely stability of geometric points.
grpObjOfClosedImmersion constructs the group law from these three conditions, and
exists_grpObj_isMonHom_iff_ker_le proves the converse. The compatible group structure is unique,
and is commutative if the ambient group scheme is commutative. The resulting inclusion
can be used with ClosedSubgroupScheme.mk. A subgroup scheme is stable under translation by its
own points (ker_comap_leftTranslation_le).
The criterion applies to arbitrary closed subschemes, in particular to the finite locally free divisors used to define Drinfeld structures. No Cartier, flatness, finiteness, or smoothness assumption is needed for the group axioms themselves.
References #
- N. M. Katz and B. Mazur, Arithmetic Moduli of Elliptic Curves, §1.3.
- Mathlib's
AlgebraicGeometry.IsClosedImmersion.liftsupplies the factorization of the three scheme morphisms through the closed immersion.
Construct the group structure on a closed subscheme whose ideal vanishes on the identity, multiplication and inversion maps.
Instances For
The identity of the induced group scheme is the lift of the ambient identity.
The multiplication of the induced group scheme is the lift of the ambient multiplication.
The inversion of the induced group scheme is the lift of the ambient inversion.
The inclusion of the group scheme constructed by the closed-subgroup criterion is a homomorphism.
The closed-subgroup criterion. A closed subscheme carries a compatible group structure if and only if its defining ideal vanishes on identity, multiplication and inversion.
The compatible group structure supplied by the closed-subgroup criterion is unique.
The subgroup of a commutative group scheme constructed by the criterion is commutative.
A subgroup scheme is stable under translation by its points. Let i : H ⟶ G be a
homomorphism of group schemes over S and x an S-point of H. Then left translation by
x ≫ i on G carries the closed subscheme cut out by the ideal sheaf of i into itself: the
inverse image of that ideal sheaf under the translation is contained in it.
Points factoring through a closed immersion that is a monoid homomorphism remain in its closed subscheme after multiplication.