Standard generators inside the Suzuki fixed points #
The generator presentation of Sz(2^(2m+1)) and its Steinberg fixed-point construction use
different coefficient fields. This file chooses an embedding of the generator field into the
algebraic closure of a valid Suzuki index and proves that the standard generators belong to the
Steinberg fixed subgroup. Consequently scalar extension maps the generated Suzuki group into that
fixed subgroup.
This is the inclusion half of the comparison. It does not assert that the standard generators exhaust the fixed points, nor identify the derived central quotient with the generated group.
References #
- M. Suzuki, On a class of doubly transitive groups, Annals of Mathematics 75 (1962), 105--145.
The coordinate change from the standard generator model to the standard symplectic carrier. It exchanges the final two basis vectors.
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The coordinate change is the transposition of the final two basis vectors.
Simultaneous row and column reindexing from the standard generator coordinates to the
coordinates used by SpStd.
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After the standard coordinate change, every unipotent Suzuki generator preserves the
alternating form used by SpStd.
After the standard coordinate change, the Weyl generator preserves the alternating form
used by SpStd.
After the standard coordinate change, the special isogeny sends a unipotent generator to
its entrywise 2^(m+1)-st power.
After the standard coordinate change, the special isogeny fixes the Weyl generator.
A finite-field embedding from the coefficient field of the standard generators into the algebraic closure used by a valid Suzuki index.
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Scalar extension of the coordinate-changed generator model into the algebraic closure of a valid Suzuki index.
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Scalar extension acts entrywise after the coordinate change.
The scalar extension and coordinate change used for the generator model are injective.
The underlying matrix of a scalar-extended generator is the coordinate-changed matrix with the field embedding applied entrywise.
A generator whose coordinate change preserves the alternating form and satisfies the special-isogeny equation over the generator field is, after scalar extension, a Steinberg fixed point.
Every coordinate-changed unipotent generator, extended to the algebraic closure, is a Steinberg fixed point.
The coordinate-changed Weyl generator, extended to the algebraic closure, is a Steinberg fixed point.
The coordinate-changed standard generator model embeds into the image in GL₄ of the
Suzuki Steinberg fixed subgroup.