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TauCeti.GroupTheory.SpecificGroups.Affine.Basic

One-dimensional affine groups #

For a ring F, the one-dimensional affine group is the semidirect product of the additive group of F by its unit group. We realize the additive group as Multiplicative F, so that Mathlib's multiplicative semidirect product can be used directly. An element (b, a) acts on F by x ↦ b + a * x.

This file identifies the translation and linear-factor subgroups and proves that they are complementary, all over an arbitrary ring. Over a ring without zero divisors, every nonidentity linear factor acts without nonidentity fixed points on the translations. Over a division ring it also computes the cardinalities of the two factors. Thus finite affine groups with at least three elements are Frobenius groups; their Frobenius kernels are identified in TauCeti.RepresentationTheory.FrobeniusGroup.Affine.

Main definitions and results #

The construction is the standard affine-group example; see Isaacs, Character Theory of Finite Groups, Chapter 7.

Multiplication by units, regarded as automorphisms of the additive group of a ring.

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    @[reducible, inline]
    abbrev TauCeti.AffineGroup (F : Type u_1) [Ring F] :
    Type u_1

    The one-dimensional affine group F ⋊ Fˣ, with units acting on the additive group by multiplication.

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      A one-dimensional affine group over a finite ring is finite.

      @[instance_reducible]
      instance TauCeti.instSMulAffineGroup {F : Type u_1} [Ring F] :

      An element (b, a) of the affine group sends x to b + a * x.

      theorem TauCeti.AffineGroup.smul_def {F : Type u_1} [Ring F] (g : AffineGroup F) (x : F) :

      An element (b, a) of the affine group acts by x ↦ b + a * x.

      @[instance_reducible]

      The affine group acts on its ring by affine maps.

      The affine group acts faithfully on its ring: an affine map is determined by its values at 0 and 1.

      The normal subgroup of translations in the affine group.

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        The subgroup of linear maps fixing zero in the affine group.

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          @[simp]

          An affine transformation is a translation exactly when its linear coordinate is one.

          @[simp]

          An affine transformation lies in the linear factor exactly when its translation coordinate is zero.

          The translation subgroup of an affine group is normal.

          The translation and linear-factor subgroups of an affine group are complementary.

          The translation subgroup of an affine group has the same natural cardinality as the ring.

          The linear factor of an affine group has natural cardinality one less than the ring.

          A one-dimensional affine group has natural cardinality |F| (|F| - 1).

          A nonidentity element of the linear factor acts without nonidentity fixed points on the translation subgroup.

          The linear factor in an affine group is a trivial-intersection subgroup.

          For a finite division ring of order at least three, its affine group is a Frobenius group with the linear factor as a Frobenius complement.