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TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.GroupScheme.ClosedSubgroup.Criterion

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 #

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.