Integral orthogonal subgroups in a basis #
For a basis of a quadratic space over ℚ_[p], the integral orthogonal subgroup consists of
isometries whose matrices and inverse matrices have entries in ℤ_[p]. Both conditions are
included, so the construction is a subgroup even for a degenerate quadratic form. This is the
reference family used to form restricted products of local orthogonal groups.
The subgroup is compact and open in the canonical forward-and-inverse topology on linear
isometries. For a rational quadratic space and a rational basis, every rational isometry belongs
to these subgroups at all but finitely many primes. No integrality of the quadratic form itself
is required: the exceptional primes come from the denominators of the isometry and its inverse.
The subgroup depends only on the ℤ_[p]-span of the basis, so two rational bases give the same
local subgroups at all but finitely many primes.
The subgroup of isometries integral in b in both directions. Equivalently, these
isometries preserve the ℤ_[p]-span of the basis as a set.
Instances For
Membership is integrality of the matrix entries of both the isometry and its inverse.
The same membership test written as bounds on the p-adic norms of the entries.
Membership means that the isometry and its inverse preserve the ℤ_[p]-span of the basis.
Bases with the same ℤ_[p]-span have the same integral orthogonal subgroup.
Transporting the basis along an isometry transports the integral orthogonal subgroup.
The integral orthogonal subgroup is open in the canonical topology on isometries.
The integral orthogonal subgroup is compact, including for degenerate forms.
Avoiding the denominators of the entries of an isometry and its inverse ensures local integrality. This gives an explicit finite exceptional set.
Every rational isometry is integral in a fixed rational basis at almost every prime, in both directions. Thus its local scalar extensions define a point of the restricted product relative to the integral orthogonal subgroups.
For two rational bases, the integral orthogonal subgroups of their scalar extensions agree
at almost every prime: away from finitely many primes the two bases span the same ℤ_[p]-lattice,
since the entries of both change-of-basis matrices are p-adic integers.